Daviess County residents will soon have access to a phone application that will greatly enhance the county’s ability to directly communicate information in emergency situations. During its meeting ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System or IPAWS, created in 2006 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is an emergency response system that allows cities and counties to send ...

County officials have signed an agreement adding another layer of communication to go out to people in a designated area in the event of immediate danger. The Bartholomew County commissioners added ...

In the fall of 2016, as wind-stoked wildfires raced across parched forest and threatened lives around Gatlinburg, Tennessee, state and local officials went back and forth about blasting an evacuation ...

Around 8:51 p.m. Wednesday, police scanner traffic caught two people discussing what roads they should shut down as a search ensued for someone who jumped out of a car and ran following a police chase ...

In light of the global computer problems apparently caused by a Microsoft software update, FEMA is advising alerting authorities to verify their access to the IPAWS system and check the functions of ...

KNOX COUNTY, Illinois — Knox County has implemented a new emergency notification system. The Knox County Emergency Management Agency (KCEMA) said it has officially implemented the FEMA-developed ...

A ProPublica investigation found that in at least 15 major US disasters since 2016, local officials in the hardest-hit areas failed to send timely alerts over the federal Integrated Public Alert and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Knox County has implemented a new system to send emergency alerts directly to residents’ phones, televisions and radios. The ...

AUSTIN, Texas — There’s no shortage of emergency alerts going out to residents in Central Texas, but a new system is hoping to make it easier for the city of Austin to send out alerts. Earlier this ...

Federal Emergency Management Agency records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show that Kerr County officials in Texas did not use FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System to send warnings with ...

Failure to alert: Local officials can tap a federal warning system to send targeted alerts with evacuation orders and other actions. Many don’t use it. Lack of access: To use the system, local ...