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NDMA and DoT conducted a live test of India's emergency alert system using cell broadcast on February 20 to verify public ...

Helicopter aerial view of the Santa Monica Pier and the smoke from the Palisades fire on Saturday. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles County's top emergency manager said Saturday the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The state of Florida has completed the first end-to-end cell broadcast technology test following the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) standard in a public-private partnership ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Metro residents were startled awake to a puzzling alert in the middle of the night, and it wasn’t an Amber Alert or a weather emergency. While it might have seemed like a ...

A citywide test of Houston's Wireless Emergency Alert system took place Sept. 5. The city's Office of Emergency Management sent out a test message at 11 a.m. to mobile devices within the city of ...

Cellphones these days are for everything, and one of their most important functions has become emergency alert systems. Cellphone alerts are far from foolproof, though, as we experienced during ...

Los Angeles County's top emergency manager said Saturday the county's overhaul of its emergency notification system is nearly complete after it sent out a succession of faulty emergency alerts urging ...

The emergency alert clarified that users may receive the message multiple times during the testing phase and that no action was required from the public.