If you are sleeping late in a warm bed on a weekend morning, suddenly you receive an urgent push on your mobile phone: "The missile is coming, please find shelter urgently!" " Do you think it's a little scary and unreal? On Saturday, the Hawaiian people experienced an identical situation, and they were scared silly collectively! "Missile attack" triggered panic in the United States!
It happened at about 8: 08 am local time on Saturday, and all HAWAIIan citizens received a "missile attack" alarm on their mobile phones:' ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill' ("Ballistic missile threat invades Hawaii"). Looking for immediate shelter. This is not a drill'. )
At the same time, local radio stations and TV stations also forwarded the alarm for the first time. Similar news was broadcast on the TV station, which led to the emergency interruption of the live broadcast of the game. Jim Carrey, an actor living in Hawaii, tweeted that he had just woken up and the first thought in his mind was: I only have 10 minutes to run for my life! !
It was only after Hawaiian residents experienced an island-wide panic for about six minutes that the incident was clarified: it turned out that an employee of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) made a serious mistake this Saturday. He accidentally pressed the wrong button in an internal exercise, which led to the people of Hawaii receiving a missile invasion warning by mistake at 8: 07 on Saturday morning.
Incredibly, the staff who made this mistake didn't realize it before the mobile phone in the command center began to display the alarm. It was not until his mobile phone received a push from himself that he realized the disaster he had caused. On Saturday afternoon, the governor of Hawaii, the administrator of Hawaii Emergency Management Bureau and some military personnel held an emergency press conference. At the press conference, the governor of Hawaii David Ige also apologized: "I am sorry for the pain and confusion caused by this mistake.
I am also very depressed, and I am doing my best to improve our emergency management system, application and staffing immediately. Vern Miyagi, the administrator of EMA, said that the employee who made a mistake felt terrible. He didn't do it on purpose. It was a serious mistake in his work and he was very sorry for it. Miyagi, a retired army soldier, said that the employee had been working in the agency for some time, and the agency would retrain the employee to avoid similar incidents in the future.
However, at present, the relevant departments have not disclosed whether there will be further punishment for the employee. After the Oolong incident, Hawaiian officials sorted out the approximate timeline of the incident: at 8: 05 am, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) conducted a routine internal test during the shift change. This is a system involving emergency alarm and wireless emergency alarm, but it does not involve alarm testing.
8: 07 a.m.: An employee of the Bureau of Affairs mistakenly triggered a warning across the state. 8: 00 am 10 am: Lieutenant General Joe Logan of Hawaii and the US Pacific Command confirmed that there was no missile launch. Honolulu Police Department informed HI-EMA that the information was a false alarm. 8: 00 a.m. 13 a.m.: The warning point in Hawaii sends out a message to cancel the civil danger warning. 8: 20am: HI-EMA announces the cancellation of the alarm through its Facebook and Twitter accounts.
8: 24 am: Hawaii Governor David Ige forwards HI-EMA's cancellation notice. 8: 30am: The Governor issues a cancellation notice on his Facebook page. 8: 45 am: After obtaining the authorization of FEMA Integral announcement and alarm system, HI-EMA sends out "civil emergency information" remotely to cancel the false alarm. After the alarm was issued, all the Hawaiian residents were frightened.
On H-3, a main highway in northern Huonu Lu Lu, when the alarm was displayed, drivers stopped all their cars on the highway in an emergency, and everyone abandoned their cars and fled, hiding in a nearby tunnel. Worried about the attack of nuclear weapons, local residents and tourists are also rushing to underground garages and nearby shelters, including the legendary basketball magician Johnson who is on vacation in Hawaii ... The Sony Open on the PGA Tour in the United States is also being held in Honolulu, and golfers are also panicked by false alarms.
John Peterson, an American golfer, said on Twitter at that time: May my wife and children be safe, and please God bless that this bomb threat is not true! There are still many people who send text messages to inform their loved ones as soon as they know the alarm: others are driving to the beach and immediately turn around and go home with their wives and children after receiving the alarm; Many people were scared to cry on the spot; Students from the University of Hawaii said afterwards that about 200 people rushed into the teaching building crazily at that time, and the scene was very chaotic. 9 1 1 The phone has been ringing off the hook, and you can't get in at all. ...
When the mistake was finally clarified, the public's panic turned into anger. A resident said, think about it, we experienced such a thrilling moment in 38 minutes, and finally you told me that it was an oolong. Many officials also said that this mistake was "unforgivable" and said that "the whole country was frightened!" Another thing that makes people very dissatisfied is that after discovering the error 12 minutes, the government agency corrected the error on Twitter, but it took 38 minutes to send out another phone alarm.
Prove to the residents that this is a false alarm. Others said that they never received a second phone alarm. And this delayed phone alarm also means that not everyone knows that the alarm has been lifted in the first time, unless it is specially checked on social media. This is a bit too long for the Hawaiian people. At present, the incident has been handled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the FCC said that it has launched a comprehensive investigation into the incident.