L.A.'s top emergency management official says he "can’t express how sorry" he is that residents keep getting false and incorrect emergency alerts on their phones -- but he says not to shut them off.

Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow ...

Officials in Los Angeles apologized for a set of erroneous alert messages that were sent to residents telling them to ...

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

Only cell phones opted into the Wireless Emergency Alert system will receive the test this Saturday, Jan. 4, at 1 p.m.

Emergency officials in Los Angeles County are investigating why an emergency alert was sent to millions of people by mistake.

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.

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

“However, after it left the EOC, the alert was erroneously sent ... need to sign up to receive any future emergency wireless alerts under the new system. Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey ...