“For Polk County, our sirens will go off for two different things now: it would be a tornado warning when the sirens would go off or a severe thunderstorm warning that has winds of 70 miles per ...

Three wildfires in Polk County that started last week burned through the weekend, and fire crews had only partially contained one as of Monday morning.

Polk County 911 dispatchers will soon have a new tool to help when sending first responders to a call.

A fire at a vacant home in Polk County led to a large response from area fire crews.

Polk County Emergency Management is making a change to keep residents safer and to save more lives.

As a crisis unfolds in southwest Florida, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office will be part of the emergency response.

Three of those storms went through Polk County "Our EOC back then was activated for about 45 days total for those three storms," emergency management director Paul Womble said.

When three hurricanes hit Polk County in 2004, the county’s Emergency Management department was prepared. But it still learned many lessons and used those to move forward with an even better ...

Fort Polk will hold an emergency response exercise beginning at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to practice handling an active shooter situation.