The investigation was launched by Garcia and more than a dozen members of L.A.’s congressional delegation in February after L.A. County sent a series of faulty evacuation alerts on Jan. 9 ...

The false alert was “not being activated or initiated by a person,” he said at the time, blaming an unknown technical glitch that officials had not yet been able to identify and fix.

Investigation into false evacuation alerts sent during L.A. fires places blame, calls for more regulation An Emergency Alert evacuation warning on an Apple iPhone.

After a second round of false alerts rattled Los Angeles County, officials in charge of notifying Angelenos about life threatening dangers are handing responsibility for distribution of evacuation ...

Evacuation alerts have become all too common for individuals living near any of the many active fires. They come via cell phone, accompanied by a deliberately screeching tone and have the same ...

The report commended L.A. County for responding quickly in canceling the alert within 2 minutes and 47 seconds and issuing a corrected message about 20 minutes later, stating the alert was sent ...