Real-time PulsePoint emergency alerts to iMessage with AI summaries

🚨 Emergency Alerts Reporter to iMessage

This n8n template fetches real-time emergency incident alerts from PulsePoint for a specific agency and delivers them directly to any phone number via iMessage using the Blooio API. It's designed to keep users informed with clear, AI-summarized reports of emergency activity near them—automatically and reliably.

Use cases are powerful and immediate:

• Get real-time fire/medical alerts for your neighborhood.
• Use it for family, local safety groups, or even emergency response teams.
• Convert technical dispatch data into readable updates with emojis and plain English.

🧠 Good to Know

• You’ll need a PulsePoint agency ID (see instructions below).
• iMessages are sent using Blooio’s API (which supports Apple’s iMessage and fallback RCS/SMS).
• Messages are AI-enhanced using OpenAI's o4-mini model to summarize incident reports with context and urgency.
• The workflow runs every hour, but this can be configured to match your needs.
• Each report is sent only once, thanks to persistent tracking of seen incident IDs in workflow static memory.

⚙️ How it Works

1. Trigger: A Schedule Trigger (every hour) or manual start kicks off the flow.
2. Get Alerts: A code node fetches the latest PulsePoint incidents for a specified agency and decrypts the data.
3. Filter New Incidents: We store previously seen incident IDs to prevent duplicate alerts.
4. Merge Incidents: All new incident details are merged into a single payload.
5. Condition Check: If there are no new incidents, nothing is sent.
6. AI Summary: The incident data is passed to an AI agent for summarization with human-friendly emojis and formatting.
7. Send Message: The final summary is sent via Blooio’s API to your phone using iMessage.

📝 How to Use

1. Get Your PulsePoint Agency ID:

   • Visit https://web.pulsepoint.org.
   • Find your agency by location or name.
   • Inspect the API call or browser network log to get the agencyid (e.g. 19100 from a URL like ?agencyid=19100).

2. Set Up Blooio for Messaging:

   • Sign up at https://blooio.com.
   • Go to your account and retrieve your Bearer API Key.
   • Pricing details available on their pricing page.
   • Add your key to the HTTP Request node as a Bearer Token.

3. OpenAI API:

   • Create or use an existing OpenAI account.
   • Use the o4-mini model for efficient, readable summaries.
   • Get your OpenAI API key from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.

4. Add Your Phone Number:

   • Replace +1111112222 with your actual number (international format).
   • You can also modify the message content or prepend special tags/emojis.

✅ Requirements

• PulsePoint agency ID – See usage instructions above
• OpenAI API Key – Get API Key
• Blooio Account & Bearer Token – Get Started
• Phone number for iMessage delivery

🔧 Customizing This Workflow

• Change the schedule to get alerts more or less frequently
• Add filters to only get alerts for specific incident types (e.g. fires, traffic accidents)
• Send to groups: Expand to send alerts to multiple recipients or use Slack instead of iMessage
• Use different AI prompts to get detailed, humorous, or abbreviated alerts depending on your audience

With just a few credentials and a phone number, you’ll have real-time incident alerts with human-friendly summaries at your fingertips.

🛠️ Stay informed. Stay safe.