Numerous law enforcement agencies have issued a large evacuation zone as they investigate a suspected explosive device in Knoxville, Tennessee
At this time Law enforcement and emergency officials in Knoxville, Tennessee, have declared a large evacuation zone and are urgently requesting that residents evacuate as they investigate a suspected explosive device. Authorities have activated the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, sending safety messages to those within the impacted area.
At this time, details about the nature of the explosive device or object are still unclear, and officials are treating the situation with the utmost caution. This is still developing
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Mass Notification Systems Market Worth Over US$ 46.43 Billion By 2033
Robust regulations, relentless disasters, smart-city investments, and AI-enabled innovations position North America as market leader, Europe as compliance-driven contender, and rapidly urbanizing, hazard-prone Asia Pacific as the fastest-growing frontier for mass notification systems globally. Chicago, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global mass notification systems market was valued at US$ 14.62 billion in 2024 and is anticipated to reach US$ 46.43 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 13.7% during the forecast period 2025–2033. In the United States, regulators remain the single biggest catalyst pushing the mass notification systems market into mainstream critical-infrastructure budgets., the Federal Emergency Management Agency has broadened access to the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS); its public dashboard shows 87,000 separate warning messages disseminated during calendar-year 2023, up from 71,000 in 2022. Furthermore, 1,480 federal, state and tribal alerting authorities now hold IPAWS certificates, creating a dense foundation for commercial platform vendors to plug into. Simultaneously, Canada's Alert Ready program logged 1,216 alert activations in 2023, many related to record-breaking wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia. Local television override tests further proved sub-five-second dissemination latencies. Request Sample Pages: Outside North America, the European Union's European Electronic Communications Code has taken full effect in the mass notification systems market, obliging the 27 member states to implement either cell broadcast or location-based SMS for public warnings. By March 2024, the European Commission confirmed operational cell-broadcast transmitters in 350 national and regional sites, with France, Germany and Spain accounting for nearly half of the active nodes. In the Asia-Pacific region, India's National Disaster Management Authority partnered with the Centre for Development of Telematics to roll out a Common Alerting Protocol gateway covering 33 states; pilot runs in August 2023 pushed 146 million multilingual test alerts in a single afternoon, underlining the scale regulators now expect from modern platforms. Key Findings in the Mass Notification Systems Market Market Forecast (2033) US$ 46.43 billion CAGR 13.7% Largest Region (2024) North America (34.0%) By Component Solution (81.30%) By Application Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (42.20%) By Deployment Cloud (53%) By Industry Government And Defense Sector (30.80%) By Organization Large Enterprises (73.5%) By Type In-Building (50.9%) Top Drivers Nationwide emergency alert mandates expanding compliance requirements across jurisdictions rapidly. Increased multi-channel device penetration enabling ubiquitous reach for critical communications. Heightened climate disasters driving enterprise investment in resilient notification infrastructure Top Trends Nationwide emergency alert mandates expanding compliance requirements across jurisdictions rapidly. Increased multi-channel device penetration enabling ubiquitous reach for critical communications. Heightened climate disasters driving enterprise investment in resilient notification infrastructure Top Challenges Nationwide emergency alert mandates expanding compliance requirements across jurisdictions rapidly. Increased multi-channel device penetration enabling ubiquitous reach for critical communications. Heightened climate disasters driving enterprise investment in resilient notification infrastructure Enterprise Resilience Mandates Propel Cloud-Native Platforms And AI-Driven Orchestration Capabilities Corporate risk managers are no longer treating emergency communications as an optional insurance policy; instead the capability is becoming a core pillar of enterprise resilience charters, giving a boost to the mass notification systems market. According to SEC Form 10-K filings, Everbridge supported 6,530 paying customers at the close of Q1 2024 and processed 3.2 billion individual voice, text, email and mobile-app notifications during 2023. Meanwhile, private-equity-backed OnSolve reported 2.5 billion message deliveries across 190 countries last year, and rising inflows from logistics, technology and energy verticals. This volume illustrates that large employers have moved from isolated building-level alarms to globally coordinated cloud services that sit directly on top of HR systems such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors. The value proposition extends beyond life-safety compliance. Technology manufacturer in the mass notification systems market Bosch saved an audited eight hours per incident after integrating AlertMedia with its MES dashboards, as automated shelter-in-place instructions traveled to 9,400 shop-floor smartwatches in under 12 seconds. In healthcare, AdventHealth deployed Singlewire Informacast across 57 hospitals, stitching nurse call, fire panels and metal detectors into a unified incident-response workflow; board minutes show a 39-minute reduction in average code-black cycle time, freeing operating rooms faster. 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The test, achieved on a public network slice, proved that broadcast alerts can coexist with latency-sensitive traffic such as autonomous shuttle telemetry without congestion. Regulators have taken notice and are drafting service-level targets accordingly. Concurrently, Internet-of-Things growth is escalating the number of machines that can both generate and receive alerts in the mass notification systems market. The National Fire Protection Association estimates that 1.1 million network-connected fire panels were operational in US commercial buildings at the end of 2023, each capable of publishing Common Alerting Protocol feeds directly to cloud dashboards. On the receive side, Apple's iOS 17 Safety Check now consumes CAP messages natively, adding roughly 1.4 billion devices to the global alertable footprint. As telcos, handset vendors and sensor manufacturers standardize around 3GPP and OASIS specifications, platform providers gain unprecedented pathways to deliver hyper-localized, multimedia warnings at population scale. Adopters forecast that sensor-to-human alert loops will contract to under three seconds by 2026. Cross-Industry Case Studies Demonstrate Tangible Risk Mitigation And Productivity Gains Concrete field deployments reveal how well-designed notification workflows translate into measurable risk mitigation. When a wind-driven grass fire threatened the outskirts of Calgary in August 2023, the city's Everbridge-powered Alberta Emergency Alert system issued 10 sequential shelter directives and evacuation orders to 1.4 million residents. Fire command later confirmed zero civilian casualties and a 25-minute improvement in perimeter clearance compared with a similarly sized 2020 event that relied on sirens and social media alone. In the United States, Penn State University's multi-channel alerting platform reached 125,000 students across 24 campuses during an active-shooter hoax in October 2023, calming rumors by countering false TikTok videos within four minutes. Industrial environments show comparable value in the mass notification systems market. Jaguar Land Rover's Solihull plant in the UK integrated OnSolve with SCADA alarms and dispatch logs. In 2023 the site recorded 17 unplanned chemical releases; in each case, digital instructions were sent to 5,200 employees in fewer than 15 seconds, and post-event audits documented 680 fewer lost production hours compared with 2022. Airlines are also leaning in: Lufthansa moved 132,000 crew members to a Singlewire backbone that ties gate changes, severe weather alerts and union negotiations into a single feed. By centralizing notifications the carrier shaved five minutes off its average aircraft turnaround time—a critical metric now that European slots are fully subscribed. Regulators cite outcomes in best-practice guidance worldwide. Competitive Landscape Shows Consolidation, Vertical Specialization, And Venture Capital Momentum As demand accelerates, the competitive dynamics of the mass notification systems market are reshaping. From January 2020 through March 2024, PitchBook logged 14 acquisitions focused on emergency communications, with larger suites buying niche specialists in acoustic sensors, multilanguage text-to-speech and threat intelligence. The most recent example arrived in February 2024, when Motorola Solutions folded Edgybees' geospatial video analytics into its Rave Mobile Safety division to enrich situational-awareness overlays. Private capital remains equally active; Crunchbase data shows venture and growth funds have injected $420 million into notification and incident-management startups since 2020, led by a $170 million Series D for AlertMedia in May 2023. Horizontal consolidation is matched by deeper vertical specialization in the mass notification systems market. Raptor Technologies now dominates K-12 education with its Raptor Alert product installed in 10,200 US schools, while Vocera (now part of Stryker) focuses on hospital nurse-call integrations covering 1,950 medical facilities. At the platform layer, differentiation centers on AI. Everbridge's Risk Intelligence Service parses 45,000 open-source data feeds and delivers pre-built impact assessments in 16 languages, whereas OnSolve's Real-Time Risk solution computes storm-track polygons every two minutes using NOAA radar. The net effect is an ecosystem where buyers can select between all-in-one suites and specialized vertical offerings, yet still expect interoperability via open CAP, WebHooks and REST APIs, driving procurement cycles that increasingly favor flexible subscription consumption models today. Technology Convergence With Security, GIS And Analytics Generates New Revenue The current innovation cycle in the mass notification systems market is characterized by convergence between mass notification, physical security and advanced analytics. Out of the top 15 video-management-software vendors ranked by Omdia, 12 had shipped documented REST or MQTT bridges to notification platforms by Q4 2024. Genetec, for instance, now allows camera analytics that detect crowd crush to trigger OnSolve alerts without operator intervention. Similarly, LenelS2's BlueDiamond mobile access control shares badge swipe anomalies with Everbridge, automatically escalating anomalies to global security operations centers when employee counts exceed maximum occupancy thresholds. This bidirectional flow of data eliminates manual phone trees and slashes mean time to acknowledge events to under one minute across benchmarked pilots. Geospatial intelligence adds another layer of value to the growth of the mass notification systems market. Esri and Google Maps Platform each launched turn-key mass-alert toolkits in 2023, enabling emergency managers to draw incident zones and instantly preview population counts, evacuation routes and ADA-compliant facilities. Analytics companies are also entering the fray: Palantir's Foundry integrates with Singlewire to correlate supply-chain disruptions against supplier density maps, helping manufacturers reroute cargo pre-emptively. Monetization extends beyond software licenses; Verizon is bundling prioritized network slices for public-safety notifications, while device makers such as Garmin embed satellite SOS subscriptions. Collectively, these linkages create new revenue touchpoints that go far beyond one-time platform fees, reinforcing the market's resilience against pure-play commoditization with insurance and infrastructure partners emerging. Deployment Challenges Include Interoperability, Alert Fatigue, Privacy And Compliance Hurdles Despite rapid growth and cloud based deployments are not without obstacles in the mass notification systems market. The International Telecommunications Union recorded 704 documented false or erroneous public alerts worldwide between 2019 and 2023, including the well-publicized Hawaii ballistic missile false alarm. Such incidents erode citizen trust and magnify so-called alert fatigue—a phenomenon the World Health Organization equates to 'warning desensitization.' 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India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, effective March 2024, restricts the cross-border movement of personal contact data, compelling international vendors to stand up local hosting or cede deals to domestic rivals such as Bharat Alerts. Compliance teams must therefore navigate a patchwork of retention, encryption and audit requirements without sacrificing the split-second latency that life-critical alerts demand. Vendor consortiums are drafting conformance tests to close these gaps. Browse the Table of Contents to access and purchase individual report sections: Future Outlook Highlights Predictive, Multilingual And Contextual Notifications Dominating 2024-2028 Looking ahead, the mass notification systems market is set to pivot from reactive blast messaging toward predictive and context-aware outreach. IDC projects daily emergency and operational notifications to top 25 billion by 2028, driven largely by machine-generated events. Generative AI accelerates this shift: in January 2024, AlertMedia released an OpenAI-powered editor that drafts situation reports from sensor data and local news in under three seconds, halving dispatcher workload during complex incidents. Language coverage is expanding as well; Everbridge now ships 144 pre-translated templates spanning Amharic, Tagalog and Ukrainian, reflecting migrations triggered by 195 officially cataloged natural disasters in 2023. Micro-targeting will complement volume growth in the mass notification systems market. Qualcomm's 2024 Snapdragon Satellite spec enables device-level geotracking granularity of one square meter, allowing authorities to issue evacuation orders only to homes inside a fast-moving wildfire's projected plume. At the same time, Blue Origin and SpaceX have scheduled 52 low-earth-orbit launches through 2026 that will improve latency for satellite push alerts to under one-second round-trip. 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Governor Stein extends state of emergency for western NC wildfires
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — As wildfires continue to wreak havoc in western North Carolina, relief is being extended by the state and federal government. Governor Josh Stein announced Saturday that the state of emergency is extended for the next 30 days for 34 counties in NC. Wildfires have ravaged an already damaged part of the state, making it even harder for citizens to recover. 'I appreciate all of the first responders, emergency managers, state forest rangers, and state and local officials working hard to protect North Carolinians from wildfires,' said Governor Stein. 'I am extending this State of Emergency to ensure the State Emergency Response Team has every resource available to continue to respond to wildfires to protect people and property.' Here are the counties included among the state of emergency: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Iredell, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Polk, Rowan, Rutherford, Stanly, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey, as well as the tribal lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. PREVIOUSLY: Evacuation order issued as crews battle wildfire in western NC In the press release, the state's Department of Agriculture cited 2,348 wildfire incidents between March and April. A statewide burn ban was issued by the NC Forestry Service between March 21 and April 2. 'The spring wildfire season is off to a very busy start, which has kept the N.C. Forest Service, first responders and emergency management staff on their toes,' said Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler. The extension will continue to provide resources to assist counties by deploying firefighters and sending more logistical supplies and equipment. Also, the State Emergency Operations Center's 24-hour Watch Center will continue assisting counties with issuing evacuation orders through the Wireless Emergency Alert Network and through the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. 'I appreciate the Governor extending the State of Emergency and making resources available, especially with the elevated risk of wildfires in Western NC,' said Troxler. 'I also urge people to use extreme caution when doing any burning.' FEMA previously announced on Monday that federal funds were authorized to help battle the Sam Davis Road wildfires in Swain County. They said the fire threatened approximately 70 homes in the Lower Alarka and Big Rockies Road area. Before that, FEMA provided federal funding for wildfires in Alarka — which is also in Swain County — the Table Rock Fire that started in South Carolina and spread to NC, and Black Cove in Polk and Henderson counties all back in March. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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30-01-2025
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Police: ‘Missing' 4-year-old Blessing Aoci was safe the entire time
While hundreds of people – including FBI agents and volunteers throughout the Quad Cities – searched for a missing 4-year-old girl, she was safely in her home. Now law enforcement officials have a new and, in many ways, a more difficult mystery to solve. At a news conference Thursday, Rock Island Police Chief Tim McCloud said that 4-year-old Blessing Aoci, who was reported to be missing in an SUV that was stolen on Jan. 16, was never in any danger. McCloud said police believe Blessing exited the vehicle fairly quickly. He said family claimed she was a different daughter when she was seen during a search of the house. Family 'perpetuated the lie several times' during the search, police said. Only after officers left the house was Blessing sent back out into the alley to be found. Body cams support the findings. 'We have tried to understand why she would invent this story, but when confronted with all the information, the family stopped cooperating with the investigation,' McCloud said. McCloud said felony charges have now been filed against Aoci's mother for filing a false report. The last contact police had with the mother was 'two or three days ago.' Kidnapping charges for a 16-year old boy will be dropped. Police asked if you know the mother's location, please contact Crime Stoppers at (309) 762-9500. All tips are anonymous. Arrests of a man and four juveniles The sole adult suspect in the incident appeared Tuesday morning in Rock Island County Court. Jaron Bailey-Harris, 18, faces charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a stolen vehicle, court records show. Bailey-Harris, who has pleaded not guilty, waived his preliminary hearing. Now the case is scheduled for pretrial conferences on Feb. 27 in Rock Island County Court. He is being held without bond in Rock Island County Jail. A stolen car and a report of a missing child Bailey-Harris and four juveniles were arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl who later was found safe, according to a news release from Rock Island Police. Shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, a brown Saturn Outlook was stolen from the 1300 block of 14½ Street, reportedly with 4-year old Blessing Aoci still in the back seat, police say. Officers responded to the area within minutes and started a search. About 14 minutes later, the stolen SUV was found unoccupied in the area of 8th Street and 15th Avenue. Immediately, information and a picture were posted about the missing child on the Rock Island Police Department's Facebook page, which was shared just under 43,000 times, the release says. Illinois State Police were contacted to issue an Amber Alert, which was later sent to cell phones by the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A command post was established in the area of 15th Street and 15th Avenue using the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (ILEAS) Unified Command Post Vehicle. Officers canvassed the area for Blessing while the Rock Island and Moline police and the Rock Island County Sheriff's Office flew drones to try to find her. Later, search efforts focused on the blocks surrounding the area from which the car was stolen. They included voluntary searches of residences and property. Assisting in the search were the Rock Island County Sheriff's Department; Moline, Milan, Davenport and Illinois State police; the FBI; the U. S. Marshals Service; neighbors and volunteers. For almost nine hours, teams of law enforcement and volunteers combed the neighborhood with no sign of Blessing. Eventually Blessing, who was found in apparent good health, was transported by the Rock Island Fire Department to Unity Point Trinity for evaluation. 'Everybody is just immensely relieved,' McCloud said earlier. 'You know, it was exhausting, it was emotionally exhausting — the entire process. And I can say that I hope we never go through anything like this ever again.' In addition to Bailey-Harris, four juveniles also were arrested. A 16-year old boy faces charges of kidnapping and possession of a stolen vehicle A 16-year-old boy faces a charge of possession of a stolen vehicle A 15-year-old girl faces a charge of possession of a stolen vehicle A 14-year-old girl faces a charge of possession of a stolen vehicle. Again, the kidnapping charges will be dropped due to recent developments. 'We were in direct communication with the state's attorney's office and Dora Villareal while this was going on. So she played an active role in this as we are presenting evidence and determining charges — and they may be amended later. But this is what we have so far,' McCloud said earlier. 'And I would say that some of the tips that were brought in — some of our leads that were generated from when we went to track down some of the other stolen vehicles — that just led us to more and more people that were involved and other charges that came as a result.' This is a developing story. Stay tuned to Local 4, Fox 18 and for updates. Got a news tip? Forward it to Our Quad Cities News on Twitter or Facebook or download our app on your iPhone or Android phone. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
