During January's fires, emergency alert failures killed trust: Altadena residents received evacuation orders five hours late, ...

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 ...

Brown University has outdoor emergency warning sirens, known as BrownSiren, but they did not go off during Saturday's ...

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 ...

Missing official alerts left residents relying on word of mouth, fueling fear and confusion after the shooting ...

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

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

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 ...

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