Jonathan Studnek knows some people imagine that driving an ambulance at high speed with lights flashing and sirens wailing — racing through messily parted traffic to the scene of a crisis — is the ...

Wake County's EMS department is planning to change how it responds to emergency calls. By 2026, EMS director Jon Studnek wants EMS vehicles to only use sirens and red lights for the most critical ...

The Pasadena Animal Shelter was severely damaged by a tornado in January 2023. The City of Pasadena will soon test 30 new emergency sirens that were installed partly in response to a 2023 tornado that ...

Emergencies in Wake County are about to look and sound different. Wake EMS announced Monday that ambulances will silence sirens and turn off emergency lights for the majority of 911 calls. Ambulances ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Leeward Oahu residents were awoken to the activation of an emergency siren at around 12:15 a.m. Saturday. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency assured the public Saturday morning ...

While you may hear Dallas' outdoor warning system during a severe weather event like a thunderstorm, the sirens don’t always signal danger. 12:04 p.m. Feb. 5, 2025: This story was updated with ...

A policy change officials hope will curb unnecessary risk to the response of medical emergencies means that the lights and sirens of many ambulances are going dark and silent. The change, which took ...

Maui’s embattled emergency management director had a pattern of downplaying the importance of the Hawaiian island’s outdoor emergency siren system in the years before this month’s devastating fire ...

A newly released police report has said it's unclear whether a Goodyear police vehicle had its emergency sirens activated when a motorcyclist fatally crashed into it in October 2024. According to a ...