Athens-Clarke County and UGA to conduct annual testing of outside tornado sirens and suggest residents use the opportunity to ...

In the years before cellphones, even before pagers, emergency responders in small towns relied on the town siren to alert ...

"The siren tone that we heard on Saturday, this week, is what we call the attack mode," said Eric Rasmussen, director of ...

But the sound he and his family heard Saturday afternoon wasn't a tornado warning ... in the decades-old system. Rasmussen said, "We had a false activation of our siren system.

The center was still in operation while dealing with the burst pipe and water damage. Central Dispatch’s radio vender and IT ...

Ionia County's tornado sirens were accidentally activated during clean-up efforts after a pipe burst at the dispatch center.

But the tornado sirens in Valley View — where seven people were killed and more than 100 injured — were not working in the small town Saturday night. Categorized as a high EF-2 by the National ...

"I could tell right away that the sirens didn't sound like the normal tornado siren ... It was just a glitch in the decades-old system. "We had a false activation of our siren system," said ...