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

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

An emergency alert for a Sussex County chemical accident was mistakenly issued statewide in Delaware on Wednesday evening, sparking concerns about the state's hazardous crisis response ...

Here's how the wireless emergency alerts, or WEAS, are supposed to work: Authorized national, state, or local authorities send them through FEMA's warning system to a specific geographic zone ...

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

"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 L.A. County," he ...