The Federal Communications Commission is planning a review of the US emergency alert systems. Both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WAS) will be subject to a ...

CT Alert is a statewide emergency notification system, alerting those who have signed up to the system via cell phone, email, or text message in times of public emergency. Credit: CT Alert This story ...

LIHUE (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Kaua‘i Emergency Management Agency (KEMA) is advising the public of a planned test of the Wireless Emergency Notification System (WENS) at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26. This ...

Oregon has two emergency alert systems. One is automatic, the other is opt-in. It’s good to have both. Multnomah County tested its emergency alert system Thursday. Oregon has two systems, OR Alert and ...

On Dec. 13, Caroline Grand was watching a movie in the Avon Theater on Thayer Street — just a 10-minute walk from Brown’s campus — when a shooter opened fire in Barus and Holley. Once the movie ended ...

The State Patrol rolled out a mass notification system for lawmakers in 2017, but it wasn’t used the morning two lawmakers and their spouses were targeted by a gunman. Minnesota purchased a mass ...

Implement layered notification technologies where each system’s strengths compensate for others’ limitations. This redundancy ensures message delivery when individual systems fail or experience ...

Emergency managers across B.C. have been issuing emergency alerts this summer, with notifications about wildfires and a potential tsunami. But some wish they had better tools at their disposal.

This article is part of CT Mirror’s Spanish-language news coverage developed in partnership with Identidad Latina Multimedia. Lea este artículo en español. In a recent interview with MSNBC focused on ...