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Why Sirens Weren't Sounded During Hawaii Wildfire? Officer Explains
Maui's emergency management chief on Wednesday defended his agency's decision against sounding sirens during last week's deadly wildfire amid questions about whether doing so might have saved lives.
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'I'm Really Not To Blame': Fired Hawaii Worker Says False Missile Threat Was 'System Failure'
The former state employee responsible for sending out the emergency ballistic missile alert that froze the state of Hawaii for 38 minutes last month said that he felt terrible about what happened.
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Hawaii Fires Officer Who Triggered Mass Panic With False Missile Alert
The administrator of Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HEMA) has resigned and an officer with a track record of "poor performance" has been fired after triggering mass panic with a false alert of a ballistic missile headed for the Pacific islands, officials said Tuesday.
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Hawaii Missile Alert: How One Employee 'Pushed The Wrong Button' And Caused A Wave Of Panic
Shortly after 8 a.m. local time Saturday morning, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency settled in at the start of his shift. Among his duties that day was to initiate an internal test of the emergency missile warning system: essentially, to practice sending an emergency alert to the public without actually sending it to the public.
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'Is This The End Of My Life?': False Missile Alert Sends Hawaii Scrambling
For 38 harrowing minutes, residents and tourists in Hawaii were left to believe that missiles were streaming across the sky toward the Pacific island chain after an erroneous alert Saturday morning by the state's emergency management agency.
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No Ballistic Missile Threat To Hawaii: Officials After False Alarm
Social media ignited Saturday after apparent screenshots of cell phone emergency alerts warning of a "ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii" began circulating, which US officials quickly dismissed as "false."
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Why Sirens Weren't Sounded During Hawaii Wildfire? Officer Explains
Maui's emergency management chief on Wednesday defended his agency's decision against sounding sirens during last week's deadly wildfire amid questions about whether doing so might have saved lives.
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'I'm Really Not To Blame': Fired Hawaii Worker Says False Missile Threat Was 'System Failure'
The former state employee responsible for sending out the emergency ballistic missile alert that froze the state of Hawaii for 38 minutes last month said that he felt terrible about what happened.
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Hawaii Fires Officer Who Triggered Mass Panic With False Missile Alert
The administrator of Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HEMA) has resigned and an officer with a track record of "poor performance" has been fired after triggering mass panic with a false alert of a ballistic missile headed for the Pacific islands, officials said Tuesday.
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Hawaii Missile Alert: How One Employee 'Pushed The Wrong Button' And Caused A Wave Of Panic
Shortly after 8 a.m. local time Saturday morning, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency settled in at the start of his shift. Among his duties that day was to initiate an internal test of the emergency missile warning system: essentially, to practice sending an emergency alert to the public without actually sending it to the public.
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'Is This The End Of My Life?': False Missile Alert Sends Hawaii Scrambling
For 38 harrowing minutes, residents and tourists in Hawaii were left to believe that missiles were streaming across the sky toward the Pacific island chain after an erroneous alert Saturday morning by the state's emergency management agency.
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No Ballistic Missile Threat To Hawaii: Officials After False Alarm
Social media ignited Saturday after apparent screenshots of cell phone emergency alerts warning of a "ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii" began circulating, which US officials quickly dismissed as "false."
