The statewide drill around Georgia will happen at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 5. It's part of Severe Weather Preparedness Week, with Wednesday emphasizing tornado safety. “This past year alone, ...

Athens-Clarke County and UGA to conduct annual testing of outside tornado sirens and suggest residents use the opportunity to ...

When it comes to disaster preparedness, Santa Cruz County is employing not only a recently established Office of Response, ...

15, 2024, meeting to stop sounding sirens daily at noon, effective Jan. 1, 2025. The whistle still sounds off on the first Tuesday of the month for testing, and for weather and national emergencies.

As the 2025 tornado season approaches, Coal County Emergency Management is taking steps to ensure that its warning system is ready for action.

In the years before cellphones, even before pagers, emergency responders in small towns relied on the town siren to alert volunteers that they needed to get down to the fire hall.

"The siren tone that we heard on Saturday, this week, is what we call the attack mode," said Eric Rasmussen, director of ...

In a release, GHS/OCD said it will test the All Hazards Alert Warning System, AHAWS, sirens in conjunction with Navy Base and Andersen's monthly routine testing of the "Giant Voice" sirens.

Winnebago County owns and operates its 50 outdoor warning sirens. First installed in the 1950s, they were developed for Cold ...

The Village of Oak Lawn will be testing six new rotating, high-powered sirens for 3 to 5 seconds at various times Monday, Jan ...

Winds have reached 100mph as Storm Eowyn causes travel disruption and leaves thousands without power across the UK and ...