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What is a Blue Alert?
Blue Alerts are issued to help catch people who are believed to have wounded or killed local, state or federal law ...
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Suspect of Texas Blue Alert captured by FBI
Oklahoma Highway Patrol issues Blue Alert in connection with July 4 ambush in Texas. Benjamin Hanil Song, considered armed ...
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NDRRMC raises ‘blue alert’ for Tropical Depression Crising
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Wednesday raised a blue alert for concerned agencies ...
What is a Blue Alert and why did my phone just go off?
Texas is one of several states that use Blue Alerts, but what is it, and how does it differ from AMBER Alerts?
Kerrville official admits he had weather alerts turned off ahead of deadly flooding
Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice is defending turning off his weather alerts ahead of the catastrophic July 4 flooding amid ...
Texans turn off phone alerts more than anyone. Did ‘alert fatigue’ cost lives in Hill County floods?
Texas sent out 282 public safety alerts last year, six times more than in 2017. The state also leads the nation in alert ...
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When every phone alert sounds the same, Texans may miss the one that matters
A crisis communication expert says everyday notifications are weakening the impact of life-saving emergency alerts.
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‘People get tired of alerts’: Why getting the word out about public hazards can be tricky
Officials sent the noisy phone alert out to warn people about a potential criminal on the loose and we know they successfully ...
Emergency alert over shooting stirs anger in flood-hit Texas
Phones buzzed across Texas just before 8 p.m. Wednesday with a high-priority emergency alert. But it wasn't about flooding, a ...