{"id":75217,"date":"2018-01-14T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ballistic-missile-threat-warning-in-hawaii-a-false-alarm"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:01:35","slug":"ballistic-missile-threat-warning-in-hawaii-a-false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ballistic-missile-threat-warning-in-hawaii-a-false-alarm","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBallistic missile threat\u201d warning in Hawaii a false alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ballistic-missile-threat-warning-in-hawaii-a-false-alarm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii \u2018ballistic missile threat\u2019 alert to phones was false alarm, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHawaiians were thrown into a panic Saturday morning after an emergency alert was mistakenly sent, warning them to \u201dseek immediate shelter\u201d from a ballistic missile threat, and it took emergency officials 38 minutes to send a new alert to mobile phones that the threat was a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dHawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi said at a press conference with the governor Saturday afternoon that a single individual sent out the alert by mistake. The individual went so far as to click through a second message, intended as a safeguard, that asked whether the alert should go out.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/hawaii-ballistic-missile-threat-alert-phones-was-false-alarm-officials-n837511\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/hawaii-ballistic-missil...ls-n837511<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii \u2018ballistic missile threat\u2019 alert to phones was false alarm, officials say. \u201cHawaiians were thrown into a panic Saturday morning after an emergency alert was mistakenly sent, warning them to \u201dseek immediate shelter\u201d from a ballistic missile threat, and it took emergency officials 38 minutes to send a new alert to mobile phones that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75226,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75217\/revisions\/75226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}