Dispatch audio has surfaced from the critical hours before a deadly flood hit its height in Kerr County, helping piece together the timeframe local officials have yet to provide amid public ...

A new report has found that officials in Kerr County, Texas, did not use technology that would have sent lifesaving emergency ...

Residents living in Allegan, Berrien, and Van Buren counties should be aware that a coordinated live test of public alerting systems will take place on July 16 at 10:50 a.m.

CROTHERSVILLE — Crothersville Town Council members recently agreed to replace an existing mass notification system — which doesn’t work well — with a new one to better serve the nearly 1,500 people ...

Burleson County Emergency Management Coordinator Duane Strange shares how the alert system works and why neighbors should ...

Alert fatigue may have led some residents to ignore warnings. Spotty cell service also could have kept some alerts from coming in at all.

As state officials spread the word about Friday’s intermittent 911 outage, many heard alerts via their phone or terrestrial ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Thursday that the new Turquoise Alert System is now online. The system is designed to help locate ...

FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the ...

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Some people equate flood warnings with streamflow gauges and sensors that monitor water levels – the technical infrastructure that triggers alerts when rivers exceed certain thresholds. Others think ...