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An immediate evacuation alert that was broadcast Wednesday evening on Los Angeles-area TV turned out to be a false alarm.
The timing of the erroneous Emergency Alert System notice wasn’t the best because it had the potential to heighten anxiety in California where, unfortunately, the state is dealing with another round of raging wildfires that have consumed 4,000-plus acres so far, and which have prompted evacuations, including of a mandatory nature.
The cryptic and redundant warning to flee Los Angeles County and, oddly, “Eastern North Pacific Ocean,” and other locations, came at about 6 p.m. local time, and was a glitch of some sort.
“[T] he L.A. County’s Office of Emergency Management told Fox News Digital the message was ‘properly formatted’ and should not have ‘triggered an EAS evacuation’ but it didn’t have an immediate answer for the ‘root causes’ of the incident,” Fox News reported…
