Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The City of Houston Office of Emergency Management (OEM) will conduct a city-wide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) ...

WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...

How Wireless Emergency Alerts work: Government warnings reach mobile devices through partnerships between FEMA, FCC and carriers like Verizon and AT&T, as shown in Texas flooding.

GCI has joined other carriers across the U.S. in the wireless emergency alert system, the company said Thursday. The alerts — used during emergencies and targeted geographically — will automatically ...

New Yorkers had a jarring experience with the Wireless Emergency Alert system Monday morning. At 7:56 a.m. ET, phones went off throughout the greater New York City area to convey information about the ...

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A coordinated live test of public alerting systems will take place across several counties Wednesday at 10:50 a.m. Residents can expect a test message being sent to their phones using the Wireless ...