Makayla Richardson is your community news reporter covering southern San Luis Obispo County, including Avila Beach, Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Oceano, Arroyo Grande, and Nipomo. On Saturday, emergency ...

Cellphone alerts are far from foolproof, though, as we experienced during January’s devastating fires. In west Altadena, warnings came too late or not at all. Cell service went out in many cases. Not ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - An important upgrade is coming to St. Joseph County’s emergency siren system. This $1.5 million project will upgrade all existing tornado sirens across the county.

For many of us, the chilling call of the air-raid siren has faded into distant memory, a civil defense ghost of the Cold War only revisited in the occasional cinematic period piece or the ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Residents in Palolo said their warning siren has been broken for the past few years and they're worried about public safety. "It's not only disasters. What about an attack?

The City of Aurora is dealing with an aging and neglected emergency siren system that may be taken down altogether. In the wake of catastrophic flash floods that have killed more than 130 people in ...

A fire company in Dauphin County announced it will no longer use its house siren during emergency alerts. If you live in the ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Hawaii’s regularly-scheduled warning sirens that get tested at the beginning of every month will still be conducted on Friday, Aug. 1 at 11:45 a.m. The Hawaii Emergency ...

The system, costing nearly $500,000, will be funded by a Union County grant at no cost to city taxpayers. Seven sirens will be installed, each capable of delivering tones and prerecorded messages.

HONOLULU (AP) — Officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui went door-to-door evacuating residents from a wildfire Tuesday and sounded emergency sirens. There were no estimates on the size of the fire ...