The alerts that can't wait for a subscription.
Mass shootings, the opening hours of a war, a city without power: Live Wire covers all of it at the appropriate precedence. But, as serious as those are, they are not total catastrophes. That is what Live Wire's National FLASH Alert System (NFAS) is for.
FLASH-level precedence is reserved for something different from our wire service: events so large and so fast that your only job is to stop everything you are doing and pay attention. Coordinated attacks on American soil. An inbound ballistic missile. Infrastructure failures that affect an entire population at once. The civilian equivalent of an imminent catastrophe warning, the kind you abandon all tasks and protocols just to read. When a FLASH event is detected by our 24/7 monitoring system, we send alerts to everyone in the United States enrolled in NFAS for free. Subscriber or not. No payment. No account required.
Coordinated attacks. Four hijackings. Nearly 3,000 killed. The kind of event where knowing twenty minutes earlier changes what you do next.
Hawaii issued a ballistic missile inbound alert. 38 minutes before correction. Families in bathtubs. Every second of that window mattered.
We don't know when the next FLASH event will happen. Neither does anyone else. What we can promise: when it does, Live Wire will alert you with clarity and urgency, wherever you are, whatever you're doing.
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