Emergency Information


First- our thanks to the many emergency responders who worked so hard in the recent  floods & who are there everyday for us !!!! 

Reaching local responders as quickly as possible :   if you are calling for emergency help and you call 911 from a land line, it will come in to Abington's call center ( as of 10-09 it still does, anyway)   Here it is likely to be handled quickly and by responders who get the call directly & know the streets and the area.  If you call from a cell phone it will go to the county call center in Eagleville.  While this is an excellent call center  and they do a fantastic job, in a major storm they get calls from all over the county  and these calls can get stacked up .  The township announced a number in August  09 ( or Sept) that you can put  into your cell phone which if you call will come directly into Abington - 215-884-2700.

 9-09  The county wants to do away with local services like the call center that Abington has, largely believed to be for budget reasons.  Chief Kelly is asking them to  take more time in making such an important decision.  Stay tuned .

County Emergency Info can be sent directly to  your email, cell phone, text pager, etc
                                           go to https://montco.alertpa.org  for more info

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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