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Volume 16 September 2017 Edition Rave Expands State & Local Footprint with 125% Customer Growth Customers across the country highlight lifesaving use cases of Rave emergency notification system Rave Mobile Safety, a leading provid- er of critical communication and data platform solutions, and a competitor in the 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards program, has reported contin- ued state and local customer growth across the nation. Protecting 500,000 at the Kentucky Derby In the past year, Rave garnered a 125 percent increase in state and local Rave Alert customers. For emergency managers newly switching to Rave’s emergency notification solutions, Rave Alert easily sends notifications that will be deliv- ered to an accurate list in seconds. More than 3,100 communities across 50 states trust Rave in an emergency to help save lives. The City of Louisville selected Rave Alert to pow- er its LENS (Louisville Emergency Notification System) Alert solution. These communities count on the Rave platform’s ease of use, performance and data management to better respond to emergencies. With one text, the 500,000 Kentucky Derby at- tendees could opt-in to receive Derby specific notifications. Rave Alert provided an easy way to send tar- geted and broad communications throughout the city’s festival season to visitors and residents of event updates and potential emergencies. “The flexibility of Rave’s solution gave us all peace of mind when more than half a million in- dividuals came into the city for the Kentucky Der- by,” said Mitchell Burmeister, public information officer at Louisville Metro Emergency Services. (See the impact of Rave Mobile Safety technol- ogy in 60 Seconds and find out how Rave’s revolutionary safety technology can help keep your people safe! Courtesy of Rave Mobile Safety and YouTube) “We trust the solution to aid us in day-to-day communications, large scale events and every- thing in between.”