{"id":229398,"date":"2026-04-01T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:22:08","slug":"public-warning-system-statewide-drill-may-trigger-text-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229398\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Warning System statewide drill may trigger text alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) is conducting a Public Warning System Statewide Drill on Thursday, April 2, between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n<p>You may receive a text message on your phone, see alerts on local TV or radio, or hear sirens. This is only a test to ensure systems are ready for real emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>If you hear or see an alert on April 2, no action is needed.<\/p>\n<p>This exercise tests the system and helps ensure the community can receive critical emergency alerts when they matter most.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to make a disaster plan and help identify improvements before a real emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Regular testing is essential to delivering fast, accurate public warnings when lives are on the line.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of a disaster or emergency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gov\/Government\/Emergency-Crisis-Response\/Alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SA.gov alerts<\/a> will provide official updates from the City of San Antonio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) is conducting a Public Warning System Statewide Drill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-229398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}