While sirens can help in areas with shaky cell service, experts say officials also need to consider alert fatigue and provide ...

Daniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July ...

In the wake of the deadly flash floods in Texas, state leaders are exploring whether to install more flood warning sirens.

Texas lawmakers should fund modern emergency sirens, improve phone alerts, bolster flood data collection, strengthen land-use ...

Morales said they cobbled together money from a grant, from the county commission, the department’s own budget and from the ...

Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...

Officials in Kerr County made several attempts over the past decade to get funds for a flood warning system, but those applications were rejected. Christopher Flavelle, a reporter for The New York ...

Tokyo is in crisis as torrential rainfall batters the Japanese capital, unleashing flash floods and triggering emergency ...

Could sirens save lives in future flash floods? Texas officials say they intend to install sirens in Kerry County. Experts ...

President Donald Trump is visiting Texas to survey the damage from recent flash flooding that claimed at least 120 lives. He ...

As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort — a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone ...