Public safety officials fear that residents might ignore future, accurate alerts if they become accustomed to false warnings.

An alert designated to warn people of a fire northwest of downtown Los Angeles went sent county-wide, according to a local ...

Millions in Los Angeles County mistakenly received emergency alerts telling them to evacuate. It happened not just once, but ...

with an emergency sound activating within 10 seconds. The maximum distance for an alert notification was 200 feet from the system’s base (its advertised range is up to 1,000 feet). However ...

L.A. County Office of Emergency Management said the alerts are not being sent by a person and his office is trying to find the root cause.

County Supervisor Janice Hahn is proposing that the county’s emergency alert system be disabled until a solution to the technical error, which causes millions to receive evacuation ...