Emergency sirens have long been associated with war, nuclear attack warnings, natural disasters, air raids, and large-scale ...

The siren that went off Friday afternoon at the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant resulted from an accidental activation, authorities said. A spokesman for Duke Energy, which owns the plant in New ...

Long before phones buzzed in pockets, public life had its own loud operating system. Bells, drums, horns, whistles, and sirens told people when to wake, pray, work, gather, take cover, or pay ...

NEW HILL, NC -- Annual maintenance. That's Duke Energy's explanation for warning sirens around the Harris Nuclear Power plant going off at seemingly random times over the past week. But no one seemed ...

PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — If you heard a tornado siren in Portage on Thursday, authorities say not to worry: There is no tornado. The sirens went off due to “a problem with the system,” the Kalamazoo ...

CARNATION, Wash. — Following another false alarm on Wednesday, city leaders in Carnation are preparing to sue the city of Seattle and call on federal regulators to decommission the Tolt River Dam, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would happen if those sirens didn't go off? That's something Mercer County leaders had to address Thursday morning after the ...

Workers have been busy around Duluth recently, erecting poles bearing sirens for the city's new emergency warning system. The 31 sirens replace a 36-siren system dating from the 1970s. The new sirens ...

(Editor’s note - This story was updated on Wednesday, July 13 to clarify information about the operation of the sirens at Seabrook Nuclear Power Station.) The sirens heard near the Seabrook Nuclear ...

The full-volume test of the Spruce Wash flood area emergency alert siren system will include an alarm sound, a voice message ...