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 ...

CT Alert is a statewide emergency notification system, alerting those who have signed up to the system via cell phone, email, or text message in times of public emergency. Credit: CT Alert This story ...

Warning: This may be an actual emergency — as far as emergencies about emergencies go, at least. The recently defunded nonprofit corporation that distributed federal money to public media stations ...

The Malibu City Council is calling for an urgent evaluation of emergency warning systems after the city faced repeated communication failures during recent emergencies. The City Council discussed the ...

Following a series of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, that revealed shortcomings in the nation's ability to effectively alert populations at risk, Congress passed the Warning, Alert, ...

Homewood Campus Public Safety will conduct a test of the campus siren/public address system and the Johns Hopkins Rave Alert text messaging system today, Nov. 25, at 1 p.m. The test will be a ...