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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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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.
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 ...
What is a Blue Alert? Texas DPS, FBI search for Benjamin Song amid Alvarado ICE attack
Have you seen Benjamin Song? State and federal agencies have issued a Blue Alert for a suspect who allegedly shot ...
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 ...
Blue Alert Fatigue: Texas Floods Reveal Warning System Struggles
As the state mourns the deaths caused by the floods, the disaster is drawing attention to the effectiveness of the Blue Alert ...
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Source: First responders requested emergency alert at least 90 minutes before it was sent
As devastating floodwaters swept through the Hill Country in the early hours of July 4, a volunteer firefighter requested a ...