Emergency messaging system and method of responding to an emergency

A method for automatically coordinating emergency responders using an emergency response computer system in operative communication with mobile computing devices for a set of device users, the method comprising:

• storing in a database of the emergency response computer system a set of first level of emergency response units and a set of second level of emergency response units for a first geographic area;
• correlating in the database a set of emergency conditions with the first level of emergency response units and the second level of emergency response units, wherein the emergency conditions are comprised of a set of predetermined trigger words in the emergency messages, a predetermined distance between locations associated with the emergency messages, and a predetermined frequency of emergency trigger messages set as a trigger limit between the first level of emergency response units and the second level of emergency response units;
• receiving through a communications module in the emergency response computer system a number of emergency trigger messages during a period of time, wherein each one of the emergency trigger messages comprises an emergency message content and a mobile computing device location;
• defining in the emergency response computer system a message time for each of the received emergency trigger messages;
• determining in a processor of the emergency response computer system at each message time an event frequency from the received emergency trigger messages which have matches between the set of predetermined trigger words and the emergency message content in the emergency trigger messages and which also have distances between the mobile computing device locations within the predetermined distance;
• identifying in the processor only the first level of emergency response units when the event frequency is less than the predetermined frequency for the trigger limit;
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• identifying in the processor both the first level of emergency response units and the second level of emergency response units when the event frequency is greater than the predetermined frequency for the trigger limit.

A method for automatically coordinating emergency responders using an emergency response computer system in operative communication with mobile computing devices for a set of device users, the method comprising:

• storing in a database of the emergency response computer system a plurality of geographic areas and a plurality of emergency groups having responsibility for the geographic areas, wherein each of the emergency groups is comprised of sets of emergency response units, and wherein each of the geographic areas has a plurality of geographic zones;
• correlating in the database a set of video cameras according to a corresponding set of footprint fields of view within the geographic areas, wherein the video cameras have live video feeds available to the emergency response computer system through a distributed communications network;
• receiving through a communications module in the emergency response computer system an emergency trigger message, wherein the emergency trigger message comprises an emergency message content and a mobile computing device location;
• determining in a processor of the emergency response computer system at least one of the video cameras with a footprint field of view proximate to the mobile computing device location;
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• displaying on a graphical interface of the emergency response computer for a system user the live video feed with the mobile computing device location.