Emergency sirens went off early Wednesday evening in Hawaii, but officials say their preliminary investigation shows the sirens were set off inadvertently.
The sirens were heard in parts of Hawaii, including O'ahu, and officials say there were sounded during a Honolulu Police Department training."Due to an error during a Honolulu Police Department training exercise, emergency sirens were mistakenly activated on Oahu," Chris Sugidono, assistant communications director for Maui County, told CNN."A siren in the Kahului area also was mistakenly activated during the exercise, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
Hawaii false missile alert sender speaks out 01:55The agency's administrator, Vern Miyagi, said the mistake happened during a drill after a shift change, when a template for a public message was selected instead of an internal one. It took 38 minutes for the agency to send a second alert to say that it was a false alarm.At the time, the department did not have an existing template to alert the public of a false alarm, but Miyagi said that has since been changed.
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