During the catastrophic flash flooding in Texas, many residents were asleep just after 4 a.m. when the National Weather Service in Austin sent out a flash flood emergency bulletin. "This is a FLASH ...

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 ...

Columbus and Bartholomew County are set to transition to a new emergency notification system. Bartholomew County Emergency Management has used Everbridge for the last “11 or 12” years and is switching ...

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

Last night, my husband and I received four different types of alerts regarding potential flooding downtown. An alert, an email, a text message and a voice mail from the non-emergency police number. Is ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Fayette County residents now have more control over their emergency notifications after officials upgraded to a new alert system Monday morning. LEXALERTS, operated by ...

BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) - Boyd County is rolling out a new mass notification system through Hyper-Reach. Emergency Management Director Tim England said Hyper-Reach will replace the current system, ...

Oregon has two emergency alert systems. One is automatic, the other is opt-in. It’s good to have both. Multnomah County tested its emergency alert system Thursday. Oregon has two systems, OR Alert and ...

The sound of an emergency alert would have been a help for some residents but could have endangered others, city officials ...