Someone in Tallahassee has some explaining to do. Countless phones woke their owners today before the sun had risen as part of a test of the state’s Emergency Alert system. The scheduled time of the test was 4:50 a.m. And at that time — a couple minutes early, actually — those countless phones awakened with that horrible sound that either means imminent doom or some sort of silver/purple/pink alert that leads folks to turn off such alerts in the first place.
Related Videos A call to the Florida Association of Broadcasters, which administers the EAS for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, was met with a message of a full mailbox as of 8 a.m. April 20. We’ve emailed the FAB and will update if we hear anything back.
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