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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from a working group of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) lays out a new vision for alerting the public in times of ...

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 ...

During an emergency, you need to know how to send alerts to the public and provide life-saving information efficiently and effectively. Fortunately, today's officials have much better options than ...

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 ...

The FCC recently asked EAS stakeholders to brainstorm what the future of emergency alerting in the United States might look like and how to plan a path forward. The feedback collected covers a lot of ...

On Dec. 30, 2021, people living Colorado’s Boulder County began receiving urgent alerts on their phones. The Marshall Fire, which had started that morning, was growing, and county officials were ...