{"id":229786,"date":"2026-04-01T05:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:56:46","slug":"texas-emergency-alert-system-test-is-thursday-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229786\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Emergency Alert System test is Thursday \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) is testing the Emergency Alert System on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The state coordinates the emergency preparedness test with every city. It is a mandatory drill to evaluate preparations for emergency tools. <\/p>\n<p>Residents may receive text messages across multiple platforms or hear sirens. All alerts will indicate if they are part of a test or a real emergency, such as severe weather, road closures, missing persons or evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>School districts, college and universities, river authorities, tribal nations, public safety agencies, city governments, and regional partners will all be participating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) is testing the Emergency Alert System on Thursday. The state coordinates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,27,24782],"class_list":["post-229786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-division-of-emergency-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229786","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=229786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}