During the first days of the January firestorms, Los Angeles became a case study in what can go wrong with emergency alerts and evacuations.

Failure to alert: Local officials can tap a federal warning system to send targeted alerts with evacuation orders and other actions. Many don’t use it. Lack of access: To use the system, local ...

Brits have been left scratching their heads after the national alert system failed to warn them of an, albeit, hypothetical risk to life. 87 million phones were supposed to vibrate, play a loud noise ...

OREM, Utah (KUTV) — Students and faculty said Utah Valley University's emergency alert system fell short after the assassination of political influencer Charlie Kirk. Instead of quick, clear ...

Phones across the country will receive a text this weekend as part of one of the "biggest public safety exercises" in UK history. It will see tens of millions of mobile phones vibrate and emit siren ...

Implement layered notification technologies where each system’s strengths compensate for others’ limitations. This redundancy ensures message delivery when individual systems fail or experience ...

Western Australia's emergency warning system fails as multiple bushfires threaten lives and homes in the state's south, but ...

For years now, Campus Safety has emphasized the critical nature of emergency notification systems. Whether the threat is an active shooter, a hazardous materials incident, or severe weather, rapid ...

Brown University grapples with the aftermath of a fatal campus shooting as an unidentified suspect remains at large.

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