FEMA records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show that Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & ...

The IPAWS program launched in 2006 in response to Presidential Executive Order 13407, which required that the U.S. have “an effective, reliable, integrated, flexible and comprehensive system to ...

Months before text-like Amber Alerts propelled criticism from unsuspecting smartphone users in California, New York and elsewhere, U.S. officials in charge of modernizing the nation’s emergency ...

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says the case of two girls who went missing Monday did not meet the criteria to sent it out through the county's IPAWS program. "Amber Alert is generally for a ...

BOULDER, Colo. — The City of Boulder announced Monday the launch of an emergency alert system that can send messages to cellphones in specific areas, similar to an Amber Alert. The new system ...

It's the middle of severe weather season in Ohio, meaning more storms are likely still to come. Here's how the state will let ...

On Oct. 4, 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct a national test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System ...

Links for AMBER alerts and more. Opinion by By Post-Bulletin. February 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM. ... was granted permission to use the Integrated Public Alert Warning System (IPAWS), ...

Aurora is expected to soon finalize the process to use the IPAWS cell phone text alert notification system. It works like an AMBER Alert. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.

FEMA’s IPAWS program gives federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments, and public sector organizations (such as universities and colleges) the ability to send emergency alerts ...