January 10, 2025

Residents in areas not under evacuation orders have received multiple erroneous alerts

Los Angeles, CA – Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn issued the following statement regarding the ongoing issues with erroneous emergency alerts received by residents in areas of Los Angeles County not under evacuation orders related to the ongoing fires:

“Now more than ever we need to know that we can depend on our public information systems to keep people safe. That hasn’t been the case last night and this morning, and I’m frustrated too.

I believe we need to disable the emergency alert system until we get to the bottom of this issue. We need people to be able to trust us, and at this time of extraordinary fear and devastation, anything less than a fully operational, dependable alert system is unacceptable. I urge our Office of Emergency Management to find a solution to this by the end of today.”