Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This emergency evacuation alert was sent Jan. 9 to a wide area of Los Angeles, including people not close to wildfire zones.

Authorities came under fire when it was suggested there were no warnings of the flash floods in Texas, which resulted in at least 120 lives being lost, with many more people still missing. In fact, ...

UNITED STATES (CBS) — Your electronic devices may alarm you today — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m.

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The next notification on your phone might be one you wouldn’t expect: a shark alert. A new state law now requires Alabama emergency officials to administer a wireless ...

When there’s an emergency in your area, the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system is a critical tool for government officials to alert the general public of imminent threats. It can be used to notify ...

(TNS) — When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many local ...

National Disaster Management Authority, working with the Department of Telecommunications, is running nationwide trials of a new Cell Broadcast alert system that can push real-time emergency warnings ...

When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many local emergency ...

When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many local emergency ...