{"id":77145,"date":"2018-01-13T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77145"},"modified":"2018-01-13T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T03:44:20","slug":"hawaii-ballistic-missile-threat-alert-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77145","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii: Ballistic Missile Threat Alert was a Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/alert-e1515886188167.jpg\" alt=\"alert\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/01\/13\/hawaii-emergency-officials-say-ballistic-missile-threat-alert-was-mistake.html\">Fox news<\/a> is reporting on Saturday morning citizens of Hawaii received an emergency phone alert stating \u201cBALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The alert caused panic among residents, who were told to evacuate and seek shelter. Turns out the message was sent in error during an emergency test. Over 30 minutes after the erroneous alert was sent, officials sent a correction message.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tweeted \u201cit was a false alarm based on human error. There is nothing more important to Hawaii than professionalizing and fool-proofing this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cdr. Dave Benham, a spokesman for U.S. Pacific Command, told Fox News they have &#8220;detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii. Earlier message was sent in error. State of Hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible.&#8221;\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Schatz wrote in a separate tweet that what happened was &#8220;totally inexcusable.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The whole state was terrified. There needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process,&#8221; the senator wrote.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, tweeted that she would work to find out what occurred.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cToday\u2019s alert was a false alarm,\u201d Hirono wrote. \u201cAt a time of heightened tensions, we need to make sure all information released to the community is accurate. We need to get to the bottom of what happened and make sure it never happens again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President Trump was informed of the event, which is described as &#8220;purely a state exercise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hawaii Gov. David Ige said in a statement that &#8220;While I am thankful this morning\u2019s alert was a false alarm, the public must have confidence in our emergency alert system. I am working to get to the bottom of this so we can prevent an error of this type in the future.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Human error has been blamed for the event; let\u2019s hope lessons were learned from this debacle. To paraphrase Ricky Ricardo, someone&#8217;s got some &#8216;splainin&#8217; to do.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox news is reporting on Saturday morning citizens of Hawaii received an emergency phone alert stating &hellip; <a title=\"Hawaii: Ballistic Missile Threat Alert was a Mistake\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77145\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hawaii: Ballistic Missile Threat Alert was a Mistake<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}