Abstract: An alerting system is disclosed including in one embodiment: (1) a detection system configured to identify an initiated emergency call, identify a calling device initiating the emergency call and generate a detection message that identifies the calling device, the detection system implemented at central office equipment of a telephone company, (2) a determining system configured to receive the detection message, confirm if the calling device is registered with an alerting service and generate a confirmation message when the calling device is registered, the determining system configured to uniquely correspond with the telephone company and (3) a notification system configured to receive the confirmation message, determine parties associated with the calling device and contact the parties with a notification message, the notification message limited to information obtained concurrent with or before occurrence of the emergency call, the determining system and the notification system independent of the telephone