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 ...

(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 ...

Jun. 8—The public's long-standing access to routine radio communications by Honolulu police and firefighters is coming to an end as the city nears completion of a $15 million system overhaul that will ...