Going back to the watchmen’s rattles and the clanging gong in the town square, firefighters continually sought ways to be alerted to an alarm. Although “putting the wet stuff on the red stuff” ...

WASHINGTON—The FCC is looking to strengthen emergency alerting, proposing new rules on how the public receives alerts on their TVs, radio and mobile phones. The FCC will also look at the feasibility ...

In 2009, the Oklahoma City Fire Department advertised a request for proposal (RFP) for a new fire station alerting system. We were constructing a few new fire stations and wanted to use a new style of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WASHINGTON — A new report from a working group of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability ...

A new “age” of alerting is coming. It will help address questions about how we make sure people are alerted regardless of who they area, where they are and what they’re doing. We believe there have ...

A new IPAWS planning toolkit has been made available for alerting authorities and broadcasters interested in learning more about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. Using the program ...

Congress wants better emergency alerting for the United States. So the Federal Communications Commission is working on several ways to accomplish that. Among other things, the FCC wants to get state ...