The evacuation message that roared from the Baker River Dam’s warning system was a false alarm, Puget Sound Energy confirmed.

Newhaven RNLI have confirmed that a report of a hang-glider in the sea near Seaford Head was a ‘false alarm’. On Sunday, May ...

Lifeboat crew on the River Humber saved three lives in an “intense and emotionally demanding 10-hour period” last week.

Instead of grovelling and selling us out, the PM should remember that we impoverished ourselves to save Europe only to be ...

Lifeboat crews were called out to a report of people ‘in distress’ in the sea off Morecambe. The Morecambe Lifeboat team ...

After conducting an investigation into Los Angeles County’s faulty emergency alerts during the deadly January wildfires, U.S. Congressman Robert Garcia issued a report Monday calling for more federal ...

"But we would have paid them, because it was beyond amazing." According to reports, the fire was a false alarm and no real emergency, just a perfect plot twist. But that didn’t stop fans from ...

False alarms plague the security industry. According to the Urban Institute, 90-99% of all security alarm calls received by police are false. The ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing says the ...

(WJAR) — The Fall River Police Department says a false alarm notification led to a lockdown at a high school on Friday. Police say Durfee High School was briefly on lockdown following a false ...

LOS ANGELES, United States — Emergency managers in Los Angeles apologized Friday after false evacuation alerts ... "I can't express enough how sorry I am," he told reporters.

Anxiety has a “better safe than sorry” mindset ... to go looking for danger which then triggers the alarm. This type of misfiring or false alert is problematic, particularly when chronic.

It was a typical sunny Thursday morning — and suddenly messages popped up on millions of cell phones across the Bay Area and Northern California: “Tsunami warning … you are in danger ...