FEMA officials are still evaluating an outage of its Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) alerting platform late last week. The IPAWS outage, first reported at 8:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, ...

Zoe Dadian's front yard became a front line when the remnants of Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic flooding in her community of Swannanoa, North Carolina. "It's just like a horror show, just ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Emergency Alert System test hit my phone at 2:18 p.m., but it didn't hit my TV until 2:22 p.m. The FEMA information had a timeline of any time between 2:20 p.m. and 2:50 p.m.

AUSTIN, Texas — There’s no shortage of emergency alerts going out to residents in Central Texas, but a new system is hoping to make it easier for the city of Austin to send out alerts. Earlier this ...

A neighborhood burned to the ground by the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif., on Nov. 20, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Daniel Torok) The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) refers to the rapidly growing areas of ...

Residents could get instant emergency alerts under new Jerseyville, county pact ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System or IPAWS, created in 2006 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is an emergency response system that allows cities and counties to send ...

Knox County has implemented a new system to send emergency alerts directly to residents’ phones, televisions and radios. The Integrated Public Alert & Warning System, developed by the Federal ...

After receiving emergency text alerts about flash flooding after rivers had already begun overflowing on Sept. 27, some East Tennessee residents are looking to the next storm and wondering how best to ...