WFTV.com - News - Emergency Broadcasting Test Mistakenly Calls For Connecticut Evacuation

WFTV.com - News - Emergency Broadcasting Test Mistakenly Calls For Connecticut Evacuation

"HARTFORD, Conn. -- Despite what residents may have seen on television, the state of Connecticut was not ordered evacuated 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.

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LOL... It must suck to evacuate an entire state. Those darn buttons. Can't they write a program to fix that?

"...State police said they received no calls related to the erroneous alert."

I guess it's good everyone ignored it.

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