Emergency officials in Los Angeles County are investigating why an emergency alert was sent to millions of people by mistake on Thursday.
Emergency officials in Los Angeles County are investigating why an emergency alert was sent to millions of people by mistake.
"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 said. Jay McAmis has been in crisis and emergency management for almost 45 years. He works for the city of San Jose now.McAmis said wireless emergency alert systems can be complicated. WEA are usually considered the "sledgehammer" for safety communications and utilize cell towers to distribute notifications like Amber Alerts or Silver Alerts.
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