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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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AMBER ALERT: 12-year-old Hispanic girl abducted from Idaho Falls
An Amber Alert has been sent to residents in eastern Idaho to look for 12-year-old Tatiana Fuentes, who Idaho Falls Police ...
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 ...
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?
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 ...
Texas flood alerts were delayed as officials waited for authorization, former Kerr County official says
Recordings provided to CBS News showed first responders asking for an emergency alert to be sent, but dispatchers delayed ...
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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 ...
Texas debate over public phone alerts reignited after deadly floods
While there was resounding pushback over the state's historical use of the alert system, some users provided alternatives for ...