Los Angeles County’s emergency officials are investigating why an evacuation alert system has been sending out alerts to residents across the region in error.
The evacuation alert system is not being activated or initiated by a person, according to the county’s Director of Emergency Management Kevin McGowan.
“There is an extreme amount of frustration, anger, fear, with regards to the erroneous messages that have been being sent out through the wireless emergency alert system across LA County,” McGowan told reporters during a Jan. 10 news conference. “I can’t express enough how sorry I am for this experience.”
Residents were awakened at 4 a.m. on Friday by a message sent to their phones, instructing them to evacuate immediately due to fire danger. A similar alert had been sent on Thursday afternoon….