County officials are urging residents to take proactive steps to ensure they receive evacuation orders during emergencies.

The Federal Communications Commission will require commercial mobile service providers that participate in Wireless Emergency Alerts to use multilingual templates.

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles ...

Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after ...

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

Thirteen years after its introduction, the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system—touted by the FCC as an “essential part of America’s emergency preparedness”—still suffers from performance anxiety.

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

Go to settings and use the search function to find Emergency Alerts. Under "Wireless Emergency Alerts," turn on the ability to allow alerts.