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

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

📝 How to Use

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).

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.

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.

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.