A new flood monitoring platform in Philadelphia aims to provide real-time information to residents of some of the city's most flood-prone neighborhoods.

Officials and public safety firms told Congress that FirstNet could use some improvements, including stronger oversight or the introduction of additional service providers.

Washington state officials said their mapping technology proved essential during massive flooding in December.

Drones and remote control systems are becoming a critical tool in Alaska for keeping residents and first responders safe.

Timothy Glassett, Alaska's statewide avalanche and artillery program manager, says he's hopeful that drones, roadside sensors and other commercial products will allow the state to move away…

Pokey Harris, excecutive director of the North Carolina 911 Board, says the redundancy built into the state's next-generation 911 system helped the state withstand outages during a…

James Barros, administrator of the Emergency Management Agency in Hawaii, says emergency alerts should consider users' locations.

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.