An alert sent out in error Thursday and Friday told millions of Angelenos of an evacuation warning. (Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times) County officials announced ...

An evacuation alert was sent in error Friday morning to Beverly Hills residents, the city said in a post on X hours after evacuation orders and an alarm sound were ...

“An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area,” the text message read, in part. It arrived with a loud buzzing sound. A second alert then followed the first, telling people to disregard the ...

Officials are still investigating but don’t believe there was an issue with the platform that sends the alerts.

An alert that was mistakenly sent to residents across the Tri-State area over a SWAT situation in Warren County was due to a mistake made during the alerting process, not a technical malfunction.The ...

Is it possible to set the alert sound volume to a fixed, non-variable value? I know you can control the volume from the sounds preference pane, but its a percentage of system volume, and thus changes.

When the federal government in 2012 launched Wireless Emergency Alerts — a new system that allowed officials to send loud, screeching alarms to cellphones across a large area — many local emergency ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — Multnomah County will test its Wireless Emergency Alert system Thursday at 2 p.m., sending notifications to up to 1 million cell phones across the metro area, including ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were jolted awake early Sunday morning to a Turquoise Alert, a new emergency notification ...