The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Oct. 4.

Two national emergency alert systems will undergo a routine test on Oct. 4 to ensure efficiency. Here's what to know and how it will affect you.

Wednesday’s combined test from FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission included the Wireless Emergency Alerts, or WEA, and the Emergency Alert System, or EAS. Messages were sent to ...

WKAR, the EAS state primary station, will participate in the emergency test as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week.

Hackers can use the U.S. Emergency Alert System to issue TV, radio and cable network alerts if encoder and decoder device software isn’t properly updated, the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

Hey everybody! There is a warning system called the Emergency Alert System (EAS) that can be used to issue warnings. Why aren’t more emergency managers using it? When EAS was fielded it had the ...