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 ...

Before the fires they mostly tracked police pursuits and crimes in progress — maybe the occasional building fire. But over the last week, since major fires began ravaging huge swaths of Los Angeles ...

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 ...