Colston said people also have to consider the far-reaching effect of EAS. He cited the case of an Amber alert for Comanche County, which is “almost 600 miles away” from Mayes County. “When an Amber ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be testing its Wireless Emergency Alerts, or WEA, and Emergency Alert System, or EAS, nationwide today at 2:20 p.m., according to an Oct. 3 press release.

TVs and radios tuned to a broadcast station should have played the message for about one minute, which said: “This is a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, issued by the Federal ...

Some broadcasters and EAS experts have said a national code is unnecessary and might add to listener “alert fatigue.” But the NAB said it supports the effort. It joined others who have commented on ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Chances are your office is going to be buzzing on Wednesday. Or chiming. Or some other alert-ing. A nationwide test of the country's Wireless Emergency Alert System is set ...

How to block the emergency alert test. The cellular broadcast system will send out emergency alerts starting at 2:20 p.m. ET for a duration of 30 minutes.

The EAS is an Amber Alert, but for severe weather events. LIST: Texas school districts with mask mandates in place The National Weather Service is changing how it chooses which storms to send ...

The first Amber Alert program started in 1996, when Dallas-Ft. Worth radio and television stations banded together to use the federal Emergency Alert System to quickly broadcast news of child ...

The technology underlying the Amber Alert system is the Emergency Alert System (EAS), the direct descendant of the Emergency Broadcast System begun during the Cold War and known to many people by ...

Evelyn Boswell is a 15-month-old girl missing in Tennessee. Andrew Caballeiro was a week old when he was last seen in Florida. Osiel Rico, 3, has been missing from New Mexico for nearly two months.

ARLINGTON, Texas - For nearly 30 years, the Amber Alert has helped locate abducted children. But its founder believes changes should be made to make the emergency alert system more effective.