The Scott County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) is conducting a countywide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system for cell phones on January 10 at 1 p.m. The TEST ensures that public ...

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The Scott County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) will conduct a county-wide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) ...

The test is done and dusted, or at least it was done for most of you. With that, we're closing our live coverage now. If you didn't get it, this is what the test hopes to iron out. But, in any case, ...

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There are a handful of reasons why your phone may have failed to sound the emergency siren MILLIONS of phones across the UK have received an Emergency Alert message today. A loud siren was sounded on ...

An emergency alert sounded on devices nationwide on Wednesday afternoon. The test alert went off at 12:55 p.m. in Ontario through Alert Ready, Canada’s national public alerting system.