Residents who lived in the west side of Altadena did not receive an evacuation order until 3:25 a.m., which was hours after ...

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 ...

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles ...

The last month of 2024 came with a tsunami warning. Now the first weeks of 2025 have arrived with convoys of local ...

All LA County residents just received a wireless emergency alert about evacuations from the county. There are NO updated evacuations in Santa Monica. EVACUATIONS IN SANTA MONICA ARE UNCHANGED.

McGowan said his top priority is understanding the cause of the faulty wireless emergency alerts — and fixing the problem. The mistakereveals the technical and administrative challenges of ...

Across Los Angeles, phones rang loudly with an alert to evacuate just before 4 p.m. on Thursday. Times staff across the metropolitan area — from Long Beach to Echo Park and beyond — received ...

Multiple erroneous evacuation emergency alerts have been sent to Los Angeles County residents' cellphones, sparking an "extreme amount of frustration, anger [and] fear," LA County Office of ...

The Federal Communications Commission will require commercial mobile service providers that participate in Wireless Emergency Alerts to use multilingual templates.

Earthquake in Tibet: Everest tourism put on hold as safety measures tighten; Mount Qomolangma travel suspended amid earthquake’s impact on World’s Tallest Peak. In this photo released by ...