Second Siren Call Alarms Big Island Residents

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Capitol Watch reports:

An unscheduled tsunami siren activation Thursday afternoon (Nov. 1) caught the public and Civil Defense off guard.

The alarms blared across the island at 3:10 p.m. without warning, over three hours after the scheduled test at 11:45 a.m.

The Hawaii Police Department announced 10 minutes later that there was no danger and that it had activated the sirens as part of ongoing tests. Read the full story.

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