What is swatting? Swatting is a dangerous and illegal act where someone makes a false emergency call to trigger a large police response. Recently, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach was targeted by a ...

A report of an active shooter at an Orange County hospital turned out to be a hoax and was a “swatting” incident, police say. “Swatting” is defined by the Department of Homeland Security as a ...

LITTLE RIVER, SC (WMBF) - This is the First Alert to new information about the threat that led to a lockdown at McLeod Seacoast Hospital. In a statement, the hospital says that it received a phone ...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Emergency vehicles will respond to UNC Hospital in Hillsborough on Sunday. Don't worry. It's not anything bad; it's just a drill. Employees from more than a dozen agencies ...

A gunman opened fire in the ICU of UPMC Memorial Hospital, killing one police officer and wounding three staff members. Transcripts of 911 calls reveal the terror of ...

But when the announcement went over the PA system that there was an active shooter on campus—and that this was not a ...

Clarksville, Tenn.-based Tennova Hospital locked down its emergency room Sunday evening after police received several different calls about a person with a gun in the hospital’s parking lot, according ...

Cleveland Clinic-Medina (Ohio) Hospital went into lockdown Tuesday afternoon after reports of an active shooter in the hospital’s medical office building, though the reports were later proven to be ...