Hawaii Lacked Safeguards in Mistaken Missile Alert, Pai Says
- Trump says hopes it won’t happen again, people are on edge
- Fallout continues from false alarm that sent state into panic
A staffer watches for disaster alerts in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency command center in Honolulu.
Photographer: Kyodo News/Getty Images
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Hawaii’s emergency authorities lacked reasonable safeguards to prevent the kind of false alert that panicked residents on Saturday with a warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement on Sunday that an investigation into the incident is well under way with federal and state officials.