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The man who said he helped Kerr County implement an emergency alert system in his former role there as information technology ...
Texas sent out 282 public safety alerts last year, six times more than in 2017. The state also leads the nation in alert ...
County officials did not issue a locally targeted emergency alert to warn people in town of the rapidly rising waters until two days after the deadly flood, according to Federal Emergency ...
The Houston Office of Emergency Management is hoping their alert system will be appealing to the public by only sending you ...
A bill Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed in 2019 could have increased participation in phone-based emergency warning systems, according ...
Considering the recent flood emergency in Kerr County, Texas, which reportedly had no alert sirens in use, the question came ...
On Monday, the Ingram City Council is expected to hold its first meeting since the recent flood disaster, focusing on ...
Many have decried Kerr County's lack of sirens on the Guadalupe River. Officials in counties that have the systems say they ...
A crisis communication expert says everyday notifications are weakening the impact of life-saving emergency alerts.
“If you’ve never seen water rise in front of you in minutes, it’s hard to conceive of how quickly that can happen—and how ...
New recorded audio from the early hours of July 4 show what first responders were dealing with as flooding led to the deaths ...
The floodwaters that surged through the Texas Hill Country revealed gaps in preparation, communication and oversight that ...