The California Highway Patrol has issued an Amber Alert for a 7-year-old boy that was abducted in Kern County. Angel Wagner ...

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 ...

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 ...

An emergency alert will be sent to your mobile phone on October 4 — but you don't need to worry about it. Here's why this is happening.

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.

Florida Amber Alert sent to phones today. What we know about kidnapped child, alert system Anyone with information about this case was asked to call 911 or Broward County Sheriff's Office at 954 ...

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) will also be used to send test messages to TV and radio stations. However, the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) will not be utilized during this exercise.

The first Amber Alert program following her murder, with Dallas-Ft. Worth radio and television stations banding together to use the federal Emergency Alert System to quickly broadcast news of ...

11:42 a.m. March 18, 2025: This story was updated. Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law in 2023 that creates the Athena Alert for the state’s emergency alert system. The alert was inspired by ...