PulsePoint Respond

PulsePoint Foundation

About this app

PulsePoint Respond is a 911-connected app that can immediately inform you of emergencies occurring in your community and can request your help when CPR is needed nearby.

PulsePoint helps create an informed and engaged community that drives a “Culture of Action,” a key strategy in strengthening the Chain of Survival for cardiac arrest victims. In addition to nearby “CPR-needed” notifications, you can choose to be notified of significant events that may impact you and your family. These informational notifications provide an early heads-up to local threats such as wildland fires, flooding and utility emergencies. You can even monitor live dispatch radio traffic for most PulsePoint-connected communities with a simple tap on the speaker icon.

PulsePoint currently provides coverage for thousands of cities and communities, with many more on the way. For more information, visit pulsepoint.org, contact us at [e-mail], or join the conversation at Facebook and Twitter.

PulsePoint not yet available in your community? Although we are working hard to make public safety agencies aware of PulsePoint, you can help by expressing interest to your local fire chief, EMS official, and elected officials such as your mayor, council member or supervisor. A simple note, phone call or public meeting comment would ensure that they are aware of PulsePoint. We have found that City Hall does listen and is quite willing to bring PulsePoint to the community.

PulsePoint is a 501(c)(3) public non-profit foundation.

Ratings and reviews

I really like this app and the information it provides. However, the most recent update changed the notification sound to a weird ticking/sucking noise and I can't find any option to change it. I'd rather not have to turn notifications off completely as it defeats half the reason I have the app.

Cool idea. However, it pops up a notification every couple of minutes just to let me know that notifications are turned on. This is extremely annoying and completely unnecessary. The only way to get it to stop is to disable notifications, defeating the entire purpose of the app. This is the only app I've ever seen behave this way. Please fix this bug so I can use the app for incident notifications only. Then it will get 5 stars.

Excellent app. Up to the minute, customizable notifications by incident type and area. The only negative is you can't tailor the notifications to an area smaller than a county. For instance, if I only want notifications for Simi Valley I have to select all of Ventura County then manually scan through the ones that are close to home. Aside from that I love the app and it will be very useful when an emergency happens close to home and every minute counts.

What’s new

• Incidents can now include supplemental posts such as agency messages, images, and links to external content.
• The CPR-needed alert notification sound now repeats up to three times for greater awareness of nearby need.
• A new On Duty feed has been added. This is a special incident list that mirrors current Unit/Group selections (professional responders).
• Support for multi-agency dispatch notifications (professional responders).
• Stability improvements, bug fixes, and minor UI adjustments.