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posted by takyon on Sunday January 14 2018, @09:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the oopsday dept.

A few minutes ago, phones across Hawaii received the above emergency alert about a "ballistic missile threat inbound," but according to state officials it isn't true. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii's [governor] David Ige and the state's Hawaii Emergency Management Agency all chimed in on Twitter to confirm the alert is false. It took 38 minutes before a second alert reached phones, confirming that the first one was a mistake.

Honolulu police confirmed in a post that "State Warning Point has issued a Missile Alert in ERROR!," while Buzzfeed reporter Amber Jamieson tweets that one EMA employee said it was a part of a drill. US Senator from Hawaii Brian Schatz said the "inexcusable" alert "was a false alarm based on a human error" while the National Weather Service called it a "test message."

The governor said on CNN that "It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button."

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/13/hawaii-missile-eas/


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Sunday January 14 2018, @12:15PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday January 14 2018, @12:15PM (#622164) Journal

    Piling your whole family in the bathtub, with a mattress on top? Seriously?

    Everyone knows you're supposed to get into the refrigerator.

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday January 15 2018, @01:41AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Monday January 15 2018, @01:41AM (#622363)

    Have we seen any reports of suffocation in the wake of that alert?

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday January 15 2018, @06:35AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday January 15 2018, @06:35AM (#622466)

    Which completes the evil plan : The bad Chinese commies don't line our modern cheap fridges with lead. You thought you were safe...