Vernon Hills

To the right are some of the most recent alerts we have sent out. If you subscribe to our emergency Notification Service (for free) you can select what types of alerts you want to recieve, how you want to receive them (text or email), and how often (realtime, once a day, once a week).

Northbrook is a very safe place with very low crime and fantastic response services. Additionally, Northbrook operates the Regional Emergency Dispatch, or "RED" Center, which provides fire and emergency medical services (EMS) dispatching for several communities in the area. The RED Center serves:

In addition to serving these member agencies, RED Center functions as the headquarters and divisional dispatching center for Division 3 of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS). This system comprises seventeen fire departments in an area north of Chicago and immediately west of Lake Michigan, facilitating immediate assistance of equipment and trained personnel to any jurisdiction experiencing a large emergency or multiple simultaneous emergencies.

RED Center's integrated, multi-jurisdictional approach enables the closest station response regardless of jurisdictional boundaries, ensuring rapid and effective emergency services across the communities it serves.

All that being said, emergencies do happen, man made or not. With our Alert Notification service, you'll receive a message any time an emergency occurs. This includes Tornado and other Weather alerts, Emergency Street closings, localized missing persons reports, parking bans, and many more.

Note it does not typically include Police and Fire dispatches, but we have that available as well through our Dispatch notification service. That service can be added to Alert Notification service. This service is FREE and can be cancelled at any time. The only cost if any, would be any fees charged by your cell phone provider for incoming text messages.