Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents at Clara E. Coleman Elementary School in Glen Rock wanted the fire siren atop the school silenced. Too often, they said, ...

When a fire breaks out in Oyster Bay overnight, volunteer firefighters are alerted to the blaze. A text is sent. A radio relays the information. Then a loud fire horn blares through the hamlet. The ...

Cellphone alerts have proven unreliable during emergencies, as seen in the January fires in west Altadena. Many residents received warnings too late or not at all, and some lost cell service entirely.

Ospreys have nested on top of the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Department siren for years now. Here's how they can move it.

The Reedsport Volunteer Fire Department is in the process of replacing the two old fire sirens with new updated sirens. The reasons for this change is that our present sirens are from the World War II ...

COMFORT, Texas – With one press of button number two at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, sirens can sound off. That’s what happened last Friday morning during the Hill Country floods. “This is ...

ST. LOUIS — After sirens did not go off on Friday ahead of the deadly EF3 tornado, St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer signed an executive order to officially change the protocols on Tuesday. The St. Louis ...

ROXBURY, NJ – Roxbury Company 1 Fire and EMS hosted a 5-hour-long party on Saturday to celebrate its new $1.8 million fire truck, a “wet down” that drew visits by other area fire departments which ...

Parents at the Clara E. Coleman Elementary School in Glen Rock wanted the fire siren atop the school silenced. Too often, they said, learning at the school is randomly interrupted by the loud whine of ...