Kevin McGowan, director of L.A. County's Office of Emergency Management, said that the problem was caused by a software ...

I have been informed the evacuation warning that many of us just received on our phones was mistakenly issued countywide due ...

Many were awakened by an emergency alert on Monday night in Wake County that may have gone out to more people than necessary.

In the wake of the Los Angeles County fires, Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly posted a message on social media reminding ...

According to a preliminary assessment, the false echo alerts that continued to go out on Friday occurred as cell towers ... one person via phone to two other people. "These emergency alerts ...

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Just before 4 p.m. Thursday local time, cell phones rang out with emergency alert tones warning residents to evacuate – a mistake that county officials blamed on technical problems. Another ...

A second erroneous evacuation alert was sent overnight Friday to residents in areas unaffected by the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles County.

The county's director of emergency management said the cell phone alerts have already saved lives by getting people to evacuate. However, for about 10 million people, a couple of those alerts also ...