Beltrami County utilizes CodeRED by Onsolve to alert the community during emergency situations. Messages can be delivered by a phone call, text message, email and a mobile app. Residents are encouraged to enroll so you will receive warning messages in the event of a dangerous situation. These can include evacuations, active threats or tornadoes. Click here or the banner below to enroll in CodeRED.
Beltrami County Emergency Management is responsible for our volunteer organizations in Beltrami County, including the Posse, North Country First Responders and the Paul Bunyan Amateur Radio Club. Our volunteers are greatly appreciated and assist in search and rescue, traffic control, public events, the fair, communications and emergency medical response. If you are interested in volunteering, click here for an application.
While Beltrami County doesn't own any outdoor warning sirens, we do activate them for the communities and facilities that have them. The following locations have sirens: City of Bemidji, Lake Bemidji State Park, City of Kelliher, Waskish (Big Bog State Park) and the City of Blackduck.
Sirens are activated to provide those outdoors to go inside and seek additional information from the news, internet or NOAA Weather Radio. In Beltrami County, outdoor warning sirens are used for dangerous weather. When winds are expected to exceed 70MPH and during tornado warnings sirens will sound. They will sound for approximately three minutes. Just because the siren stops doesn't mean the hazard is over. There is no "all clear" activation. One exception is the Lake Bemidji State Park's siren is activated for all severe thunderstorm warnings.
The Leech Lake Reservation has two sirens that are located in the Pennington Community and the Mission Community Center. These sirens are not activated by Beltrami County and activate by Cass County.
