Brown University has outdoor emergency warning sirens that can be used in an active shooter situation, but they did not go off during Saturday's shooting. At press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 16, ...

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“When we have the siren going off in the middle of the night, waking people up, it’s an antique. We have pagers and we have cell phones,” he said. Lange said he called officials in Defiance, Fulton ...

Cellphones these days are for everything, and one of their most important functions has become emergency alert systems. Cellphone alerts are far from foolproof, though, as we experienced during ...