ATLANTA, Ga. — What’s the most important app you have on your phone—the one you can’t live without? Facebook? YouTube? Snapchat? Google Maps? All of them? What makes any of these apps so important to us is they provide content, connection, and capability. Some apps are fun, some are useful, and some help us get things done.
What if there were an app to make you more aware of severe weather, help you prepare for an emergency and ultimately make you, your friends and family more disaster ready? Would you download it? According to a recent surveyby Pew Research, 40 percent of Americans have used their smartphone to look up government services or information.
The FEMA app is free to download on the App Store and Google Play. It’s packed with features that make it useful and informative too, and allows you to:
- Get weather alerts;
- Get safety tips;
- Prepare an emergency kit checklist; and
- Get safety reminders.
Every minute counts when severe weather threatens. Nearly half a million Americans already have the FEMA app. So take a few minutes today, and download the FEMA App for free on the App Store and Google Play.
On any given day, you may just find it to be the most important app on your phone.
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FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
