Patent ID: 8358751

Claim:
A method for emergency communications, with steps comprising: (a) providing by a sponsor, sua sponte, equipment configured to receive, store, retrieve, and play, in a nonpreferrential manner, electronic messages associated with one of a plurality of electronic access addresses; (b) establishing by the sponsor, an event identifier; (c) communicating from the sponsor to the public at large, a prescribed manner for constructing the plurality of electronic access addresses; (d) communicating from the sponsor to the public at large, the event identifier; (e) configuring by the sponsor, the plurality of electronic access addresses of the equipment, based at least in part on the event identifier, a plurality of user identifiers, and the prescribed manner; (f) activating the equipment by the sponsor, and making the equipment accessable for use by the public at large starting at a first time, wherein the first time is based at least in part on recognition of a start of the emergency by the sponsor; (g) configuring by the public at large, at least one electronic access address, based at least in part on the event identifier, at least a part of a subscriber telephone number, and the prescribed manner; (h) using the equipment by the public at large to receive, store, retrieve, and play the electronic messages associated with the at least one electronic access address; and (i) deactivating the equipment by the sponsor, and making the equipment unaccessable for use by the public at large starting at a second time, wherein the second time is based at least in part on recognition of an end to the emergency by the sponsor.