[EAS] False EM alarm in HI

[Botterell, Arthur@CalOES]

CNN has the HI governor saying that someone "pushed the wrong button."  While I imagine (I hope!) that sending out a live alert is a little more involved than just one button, the point remains that having left the "user interface" design for IPAWS up to vendors there's no guarantee that the controls have been designed to minimize the potential for human error.

There'll be an impulse to do something after this... and I'd recommend creating a standardized, and well-engineered, set of "screens" for activating IPAWS.  It should be possible to train folks nationwide to the same procedure for IPAWS... right now every different product requires different training.

Art
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From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> on behalf of Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com>

There was a false alarm today from the Hawaii Emergency Management
... apparently it was on telephones and regional outdoor alarms.
So far, I've not seen that it was run on any radio station, although
some reporters have compared this with AMBER alerts.

What is interesting, it seems it took over 35 minutes and
a politician to get the word out that it was a false alarm.

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