AMBER Alerts: What are they? How can you manage them?
Recently, you may have received an Amber Alert on your phone — and it was very loud, and very different from any other alerts that you may have experienced the past. These new types of alerts are called “Wireless Emergency Alerts”. These WEAs, according to FEMA, “are emergency messages sent by authorized government alerting authorities through your mobile carrier.
They include:
– Extreme weather, and other threatening emergencies in your area
– AMBER Alerts
– Presidential Alerts during a national emergency
