WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)—More fire departments, including the Wichita Fire Department, are implementing an alert system to keep fire officials safe. When fire trucks or ambulances leave the station, their lights and sirens blare. An automatic digital notification tells drivers when emergency vehicles are approaching before they even make it down the road. The sound of a siren now matched with a notification. "It's HAAS Alert and, basically, what it is, it's a system that utilizes different apps. It makes them aware that they're responding or down the road on the side of the road for a grassfire car wreck or a medical system like makes them alerted to the fact that there's a fire department up there," said Sedgwick County Fire District 1 Deputy Chief Ray Hensley. Deputy Chief Ray Hensley says in just October, Sedgwick County Fire District 1 sent over 21,000 alerts to drivers. "Because people will get over on the, you know, the oh, well, cognizant of an emergency vehicle approaching the intersection or up on the side of the road," he said. Firefighter injured while working building fire in McPherson The alerts appear on the cars’ navigation and entertainment screens and drivers’ cell phones through GPS. Deputy Chief Hensley says it's essentially a verbal warning. "Most cars nowadays have navigation systems installed into the vehicles. Announcers over the speakers in the car, you know, turn right in 300 feet or whatever and just sort of make you aware, like one in a quarter mile. There's an emergency vehicle on the road," he said. Once other departments have the tech up and running, Hensley says the county will use what they call responder-to-responder technology, so fire trucks know when other trucks are approaching. The HAAS Alert System uses the WAZE App, which can be installed on your car play or cell phone.