Emergency evacuation alerts have gone off the rails, pinging people seemingly at random. Experts say that such errors can sow mistrust in the alert system, potentially endangering residents down the ...

On the afternoon of Jan. 9, nearly 10 million people across Los Angeles County received a warning that they were in danger.

Kevin McGowan, director of L.A. County's Office of Emergency Management, said that the problem was caused by a software system glitch.

Los Angeles County’s emergency operations center said Friday night that it believed the repeated erroneous alerts were due to issues with telecommunications systems, likely caused by the fires.

Across Los Angeles, phones rang loudly with an alert to evacuate just before 4 p.m. on Thursday. Times staff across the metropolitan area — from Long Beach to Echo Park and beyond — received ...

Los Angeles is no stranger to wildfires. With a long history of destructive blazes, the region has some of the toughest wildfire policies in the country. Still, driven by powerful winds ...

The Watch Duty app's fire fact-checkers brought reliable information to Los Angeles residents during a week of chaos.

Acting as a virtual emergency operation center, Watch Duty relies on a variety of data sources to provide detailed, localized ...

Ever since the deadly wildfires began in Los Angeles two weeks ago, residents have largely turned to one app for the most up-to-date information. It’s called Watch Duty and Stephanie Sy spoke to two ...

The City of Los Angeles is responding to the Palisades Fire amidst the dangerous wind storm impacting the L.A. region. The Emergency Operations Center has been activated to a Level 2 in response ...

On the afternoon of Jan. 9, nearly 10 million people across Los Angeles County received ... correctly targeted alert” was sent from the Emergency Operations Center on Jan. 9, but “after ...