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

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn is proposing that the county’s emergency alert system be disabled until a solution ...

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

As wildfires raged in California, confusion reigned in Los Angeles after the county's wireless emergency alert system sent ...

Specialist teams have begun to look for more people killed, as officials say scale of disaster not down to "lack of preparation".

The Florida Division of Emergency Management partnered with UF to launch a program that uses AI to send real-time messaging before, during and after a disaster like a hurricane.

Public safety officials fear that residents might ignore future, accurate alerts if they become accustomed to false warnings.

State officials are investigating an alert message that warned Kansans to stay home. On Monday, Jan. 6, the Kansas Division of Emergency Management said it was trying to ...

Officials told millions of residents to disregard an evacuation warning they were mistakenly sent due to a “technical error.” ...

I have been informed the evacuation warning that many of us just received on our phones was mistakenly issued countywide due to a technical error," Supervisor Janice Hahn said.

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