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  2. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Emergency population warning - Wikipedia

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    FR-Alert. FR-Alert is a national-level mobile risk alert and emergency communication system implemented by Intersec [9] in partnership with the Ministry of the Interior in France. This system is designed to facilitate the efficient dissemination of critical alerts and safety information to citizens throughout the country.

  4. PASS device - Wikipedia

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    The PASS device sounds a loud (95 decibel) [1] audible alert to notify others in the area that the firefighter is in distress. On a fireground, the sound of an activated PASS device indicates a true emergency and results in an immediate response to rescue the firefighters in distress.

  5. Emergency Broadcast System - Wikipedia

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    As the EBS was about to be replaced by its successor, the aforementioned Emergency Alert System in the mid-1990s, some stations used the following message: "This station is testing its Emergency Broadcast System equipment. The EBS will soon be replaced with the Emergency Alert System; the EAS will provide timely emergency warnings."

  6. List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia

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    Upsweep is an unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays. This sound was present when the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory began recording its sound surveillance system, SOSUS, in August 1991. It consists of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration each.

  7. Nasa accidentally airs ‘scary’ audio of medical emergency ...

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    Nasa has denied there was a medical emergency aboard the International Space Station after it accidentally broadcast the audio feed of a drill simulating a crew member in extreme distress ...

  8. Siren (alarm) - Wikipedia

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    Sound sample ⓘ An 1860s-era siren. [2] A siren is a loud noise-making device. There are two general types: mechanical and electronic. Civil defense sirens are mounted in fixed locations and used to warn of natural disasters or attacks. Sirens are used on emergency service vehicles such as ambulances, police cars, and fire engines.

  9. ABC fined by FCC over ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ misuse of ...

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    Jimmy Kimmel's guests sometimes curse or do something obscene, but that's not what got the network in trouble this time.