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Last Laugh! Emergency Broadcast Blunder In Connecticut

Patrick Townson (ptownson@telecom-digest.org)
Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:58:02 -0500

Emergency Broadcast Blunder In Connecticut
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_032154054.html

Despite what residents may have seen on television, the state of
Connecticut was not ordered evacuated on Tuesday.

State emergency management officials believe someone pressed the wrong
button, and instead of running a test of the emergency alert system,
midday television viewers and radio listeners were told that the state
was being evacuated.

"There is absolutely no evacuation or state emergency," said Kerry
Flaherty, of the Office of Emergency Management. "It was an erroneous
message."

For the rest of the story go to:
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_032154054.html

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The talking heads on the radio and
television chattered about it for several minutes as people everywhere
started rushing out of their homes, driving their cars furiously down
all the roads and highways, etc. Once the massive traffic jam of all
traffic jams was underway, *then* the poor people were told, 'Gee,
it seems to have been a false alarm ...' PAT]

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