{"id":4262,"date":"2019-12-18T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:59:35","slug":"news-release-siren-testing-on-hawaii-island-december-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/news-release-siren-testing-on-hawaii-island-december-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: Siren testing on Hawaii Island &#8211; December 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 18, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HAWAI&#8217;I COUNTY \u2014 The Hawai&#8217;i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA), together with the Hawai&#8217;i County Civil Defense Agency, will conduct siren testing at the following locations and times on Friday, December 20, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 N\u0101po\u2032opo\u2032o, Captain Cook<br>\u2022 Punalu\u2032u, Ka\u2032\u016b<br>\u2022 Baker Avenue, Hualani Park<br>\u2022 Hawaiian Paradise Park #3, Puna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents nearby may hear the siren sound for 30-seconds to 3-minute intervals during the identified timeframe. Testing will include short blasts known as \u201cburps.\u201d During the tests, Emergency Management Officials and Technicians will be checking the functionality of the sirens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These sirens were installed as part of HI-EMA\u2019s ongoing All-Hazard Outdoor Warning Siren Program. Other sirens will be updated, and new sirens installed, at various locations across the state under this Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The All-Hazard Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety is one part of Hawai&#8217;i\u2019s Statewide Alert &amp; Warning System used to notify the public during pending emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HI-EMA encourages the public to make use of other supplemental methods of warning including, but not limited to, signing up for the County of Hawai&#8217;i Civil Defense mass emergency notification system called Blackboard Connect, and utilizing NOAA Weather Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents with concerns about the sirens or their operations, or with reports of siren malfunctions, may contact the Hawai&#8217;i County Civil Defense Agency at (808) 935-0031.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact:<br>Arlina Agbayani<br>Public Relations Officer<br>arlina.a.agbayani@hawaii.gov<br>808-620-5423<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hawai&#8217;i Emergency Management Agency<br>HawaiiEMA@hawaii.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 18, 2019 HAWAI&#8217;I COUNTY \u2014 The Hawai&#8217;i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA), together with the Hawai&#8217;i County Civil Defense Agency, will conduct siren testing at the following locations and times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"4188,2547,4296,3885,3679,3806","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[352,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-2021","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}