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

The Scott County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) will conduct a countywide test of theWireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system for cellphones Saturday, January 4 at 1:00 p.m. According to a ...

The National Weather Service also uses the system for severe weather alerts ... Go to settings and use the search function to find Emergency Alerts. Under "Wireless Emergency Alerts," turn ...

The test is intended to ensure public safety officials have the methods and systems in place to deliver urgent alerts and warnings to the public during an emergency or disaster. Periodic testing ...

This is groundbreaking, and we are the first in the state of California to adopt this program and we’re very proud of that,” ...

The FCC, in the words of soon-to-depart Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, has taken “a major step forward” in expanding multilingual Wireless Emergency Alerts ... s Office of National ...

Schall says an official sent out the message via a reverse 911 call, a wireless emergency alert, and the Emergency Alert System.

has leveraged Semtech’s LoRa technology and LoRaWAN for its battery powered wireless emergency alert system deployed in 10,000 public housing flats for seniors in Singapore since 2019.

That same year, when the worst fire in California history swept through the town of Paradise, emergency officials used an old alert system that reached a small fraction of residents, rather than the ...

state and national messages, according to the agency. Only cell phones that have opted in to receive Wireless Emergency Alert system messages will receive the test alert.

"There is an extreme amount of frustration, anger, fear, with regards to the erroneous messages that have been being sent out through the wireless emergency alert system across LA County," McGowan ...