Elizabeth Dunn, a faculty member at the University of South Florida's College of Public Health, explains why many people don't take hurricane warnings seriously.

Recent legislation aims to put tighter controls on where camps can operate and instate new rules about alert technologies.

The intermittent statewide 911 outage Pennsylvania experienced this month was not caused by a cyberattack, officials said.

North Dakota, California, and others are sending resources to Texas to aid in the state's recovery efforts after a catastrophic flood left dozens of people dead or…

A growing wave of outages and cyberattacks is punishing the nation's aged and underfunded emergency communications systems.

Joshua Smarzo, a Coast Guard lieutenant and command center sector chief, says a new alert system will help meet the challenges of managing search and rescue operations,…

The Cal Fire Aviation Tracking and Information System is the state's latest effort to improve its firefighting management systems after last January's devastating Los Angeles blazes.

After a month of destructive fires in Los Angeles, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order designed to help protect urban areas.

The Elk Grove, California, Police Department has been granted permission to use drones within an exceptionally large area of airspace.

Two counties in Ohio have fully migrated to next-generation 911, as the state looks ahead toward a statewide embrace of the technology.