For those without a smartphone, the alert system won't work. Nevertheless, emergency services have other means of communicating danger, such as TV news and live radio broadcasts.

New documents reveal the Department of Justice and Public Safety believed door-to-door notification and a Sentinel system alert were enough during a raging forest fire that forced several hundred ...

Why you might receive an emergency alert warning on your phone unexpectedly as 87 million devices are set to be sent a ...

Roughly 40 million people from Texas to the Carolinas are under winter weather alerts, as a rare winter storm brings ...

The nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS), which sends alerts through mobile phones, will be tested later this year. The EAS causes phones and tablets to vibrate, read the alert aloud and emit a ...

The UK's Emergency Alert system - which is used to warn people about dangerous situations, such as floods or wildfires - will be tested again later this year. The first nationwide test of the ...

A 10-second siren will sound on millions of UK mobile phones this year as part of a test of the government's emergency alert system. The alert, for which a date hasn't yet been revealed, was announced ...

Millions of phones will blare with the sound of a 10-second siren again later this year when the Government issues another test of its ‘Armageddon alert’ system. The Emergency Alert System ...

Brits are set to receive a 10-second alert as millions of phones will blare out an 'Armageddon alert' as part of a Government test, according to reports. The system, unveiled in 2023, has already ...