Classes resumed Tuesday afternoon at Shelby City Schools after a false alarm triggered a lockdown at the campus earlier in ...

New fines for false-alarm emergency calls have brought in $690,000 to the Halifax Regional Municipality in less than a year, but haven't reduced the unwarranted calls coming in. Halifax Regional Fire ...

An accidental activation of an emergency radio at Shuler Elementary in Clive prompted a police response, but district leaders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Businesses with faulty fire alarms that repeatedly go off erroneously and tie up city firefighters’ — and their equipment’s — ...

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DIORIO SHOWS US WHAT THESE CALLS HAVE COST OVER TIME. BETWEEN TIME, MANPOWER AND FUEL. IT TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT AND TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO GET THESE TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT UP AND RUNNING FOR A CALL. AND ...

More than nine in 10 burglar alarms received by some local police agencies are false alarms, which some officials say waste taxpayer dollars and law enforcement resources. Some local cities fine ...

When a high-pitched whine pierces the normal hum of campus, most students take little notice as a few unlucky residents wander out to the quad, resigned to several minutes of another fire alarm. But ...

CrimeRadar, an AI powered app for tracking crime and public safety, experienced a tech malfunction that sent out a false ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 20—MAGGIE VALLEY — Maggie Valley police officers have responded to 90 false alarms at businesses this year, some of them ...