Close to 55,000 wildfires have burned over 6.8 million acres in the US so far this year. Fire radio scanners are used by emergency fire crews to communicate real-time information as they battle blazes ...

When the 2020 Walbridge wildfire threatened John Clarke Mills’ off-grid home in Sonoma County, Calif., he was frustrated by a lack of accessible information. While government agencies seemed to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 8—The public's long-standing access to routine radio communications by Honolulu police and firefighters is coming to an end ...

Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public after they switch to an encrypted radio system. This means that the current publicly available scanner ...

Wen Gutreuter considers herself a safety-conscious resident who likes to stay abreast of news in her community. The 50-year-old mother of three said the fastest and most useful information she gets ...

For decades reporters have been able to listen to police and fire department scanners to be alerted to major accidents, fires or crimes in progress and alert the public. HONOLULU — The public’s ...

(TNS) — The public's long-standing access to routine radio communications by Honolulu, Hawaii, police and firefighters is coming to an end as the city nears completion of a $15 million system overhaul ...