Wireless Emergency Alerts
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Wireless Emergency Alerts, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network, is an alerting network in the United States designed to
Test alert issued on October 4, 2023
Erroneous alert sent to the state of Hawaii in 2018.
A Wireless Emergency Alert sent for all of Los Angeles County received on a phone that was set to Do Not Disturb mode.
On the morning of January 13, 2018, an alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state
Wireless Emergency Alerts
…by residents up to 80 miles (130 km) away of the intended area, and that "some of them received the alert more than 15 times." On January 13, 2018, a false alert of an inbound missile to Hawaii was mistakenly issued through EAS and WEA by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, as the result of an employee error during a routine internal system…
David Ige, who served as Governor of Hawaii at the time of the incident
Former U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Bruce E. Oliveira (left) was tasked by the State of Hawaii to lead an internal investigation into the incident.
Na mokupuni o Hawaii nei LOC 98680907