The HA false alarm caused by hitting the wrong button excuse is total bullsh*t, and here is why ....

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12. Reuters:

Ige said the emergency management agency after the incident ordered a change in its procedures requiring two employees, not just one, to send out such an alert in the future. He said such shift changes occur three times a day every day of the year.

Miyagi, who said Hawaii would have only 12 to 13 minutes of warning in an actual attack, declined to say what action would be taken against the employee. Miyagi said the agency routinely tests its emergency alert system and that employee thought he was conducting a test, not realizing he had transmitted the warning with a two-step process on a computer screen until receiving it on his own cellphone minutes later.

“There is a screen that says, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?'” Miyagi said, adding that the employee “feels terrible about it.”

Miyagi, who took responsibility for the incident, said the mistake “should have been caught.”

https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN1F20U8