When emergency strikes, are public alerts saving enough lives?
In the wake of the deadly Maui fires, CBS News national investigative correspondent Stephen Stock asks if decision-makers should always err on the side of caution.
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In the wake of the deadly Maui fires, CBS News national investigative correspondent Stephen Stock asks if decision-makers should always err on the side of caution.
Phones across the country buzzed and rang with the test of the Emergency Alert System a few weeks back. If your phone went off, you might be thinking you’ll be warned in an emergency in your community — but that’s not necessarily the case.
A CBS News investigation found numerous examples across the U.S. where emergency officials failed to issue timely alerts to warn the public about safety threats — or never issued an alert at all.
Hennepin County Emergency Management said a "malfunction on one of several siren control computers caused all 292 of Hennepin County's sirens to repeat the 1 p.m. successful siren test."
If you live in the Twin Cities, you may have heard emergency sirens go off more than once Wednesday.
