Nearly a decade ago, neighboring counties, Guadalupe and Comal, installed flood sirens. Nearby New Braunfels regularly tests ...

Texas county commissioners previously suggested "river calling," an informal phone chain used by summer camps, would be ...

A Texas county rejected siren alert systems in the past due to high costs. But after recent flash floods, state and local ...

Emergency officials are starting to focus on alert systems as they search for answers about how the flash flooding swept away ...

State and local officials in Texas have come under scrutiny over the lack of sirens in place to warn people of impending ...

While many Texas counties have installed outdoor sirens over the years to warn residents of flash floods, Kerr County — no ...

Former Kerr County Commissioner Tom Moser said in 2016 their flood warning system was "marginal at best." Still, the county ...

Outdoor weather alert systems are not required by any federal or state law. The choice is left up to local leaders.

A small Texas town recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster after it recently upgraded its emergency alert system ...

SAN ANTONIO — Five days after the waters of the Guadalupe River rose and overwhelmed much of Kerr Country on July Fourth, ...

Twice, the Texas Division of Emergency Management turned down Kerr County's requests for money to improve flood warnings.

A former official from Kerr County Texas, said that the community was not in favour of putting up outdoor emergency sirens in ...