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The events of the Hawaii false missile incident served as the basis for writer Dan Scott's radio play Emergency Alert: Ballistic Missile Inbound which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 20th March 2024. The play took key events from the incident and transported them from Hawaii to an English village in 2024. [118]
Hawaii apparently did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a false emergency alert about a missile attack that panicked residents. FCC says appears Hawaii had no safeguard to stop ...
The worker who sent a false missile alert to Hawaiian residents on Saturday has reportedly been reassigned. Hawaii worker who 'pressed the wrong button' has been reassigned, not fired Skip to main ...
On January 13, 2018 at approximately 8:07 a.m. HST, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) mistakenly issued an emergency alert warning of a ballistic missile inbound threatening the region, which was claimed to be not a drill. 38 minutes later, it was announced by HI-EMA and the Honolulu Police Department that the alert was a false alarm.
Maui residents who made desperate escapes from flames, some on foot, have asked why Hawaii’s famous emergency warning system didn’t alert them as fires raced toward their homes, in interviews ...
On 13 January 2018, as part of the false missile alert, a civil danger warning interrupted local television and radio broadcasts throughout Hawaii, in addition to the warning sent to smartphones. [1] BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world. "We were afraid that people would have gone mauka," Mr Andaya said, using a Hawaiian word that means inland or ...
Officials say the dramatic speed of Hawaii’s wildfires left no time to trigger the state’s siren alert system Maui residents may not have been warned as wildfires approached because no alarm ...