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Officials balked at the cost for installing a siren warning system and the potential for sirens to blare in the middle of the ...
While sirens can help in areas with shaky cell service, experts say officials also need to consider alert fatigue and provide ...
In the wake of the deadly flash floods in Texas, state leaders are exploring whether to install more flood warning sirens.
Following this weekend’s devastating Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, and left at least two dozen still missing ...
Officials in a Texas town where nobody died amid the state's devastating flooding last week are crediting an updated siren ...
A member of the public looks out at flooding caused by a flash flood at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on July 5, 2025. As historic flash floods swept through Kerr County over July 4 weekend ...
Sirens are also limited to a certain radius of people who can hear during “clear” conditions. Heavy rainfall and river ...
Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began ...
Texas Hill Country was unprepared for the July 4 nightmare flash floods that killed at least 120 people, with 173 still ...
Kerr County first tried to secure $1 million for a flood warning system in 2017, but could not. Could such a system have ...
More than 170 people are still believed to be missing a week after the forceful floodwater hit over the July Fourth weekend.
While Kerr County officials say they didn’t know how bad the July 4 flooding would be, it warned residents nearly eight years ago to “be flood aware” about the ongoing potential ...