An evacuation alert was sent in error Friday morning to Beverly Hills residents, the city said in a post on X hours after evacuation orders and an alarm sound were ...
Millions in Los Angeles County mistakenly received emergency alerts telling them to evacuate. It happened not just once, but twice, with the second incident on Friday. The mistakes created panic ...
An alert that was mistakenly sent to residents across the Tri-State area over a SWAT situation in Warren County was due to a mistake made during the alerting process, not a technical malfunction.The ...
The Starpoint Central School District went into a district-wide lockdown at approximately 10:45am on Wednesday, October 22.
On Wednesday afternoon, the emergency alert system (EAS) in Minnesota issued a “Civil Authority” alert to local media. The alert included residents in eight counties in the state. According to ...
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 ...
MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — Multnomah County will test its Wireless Emergency Alert system Thursday at 2 p.m., sending notifications to up to 1 million cell phones across the metro area, including ...