{"id":6074,"date":"2022-01-29T22:16:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T08:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:39:31","slug":"warning-siren-goes-off-in-hilo-in-apparent-malfunction-technicians-are-investigating-possibility-of-an-electrical-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/warning-siren-goes-off-in-hilo-in-apparent-malfunction-technicians-are-investigating-possibility-of-an-electrical-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: Warning Siren Goes Off in Hilo in Apparent Malfunction; Technicians are Investigating Possibility of an Electrical Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Release No. 2022-009<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong> \u2013 An apparent malfunction in the Hawai\u2018i All-Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System Saturday night caused at least one siren on the Big Island in central Hilo to sound in error for about 5 minutes around 8:30 p.m. HST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is <strong>no emergency<\/strong> and residents and visitors should <strong>disregard<\/strong> the siren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The erroneous siren was reported almost immediately to Hawai\u2018i County Civil Defense, which notified the Hawai\u2018i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) State Warning Point. The HI-EMA State Warning Point deactivated the siren. Neither HI-EMA nor Hawai\u2019i County Civil Defense reported any action on their part that would have led to the siren activation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technicians are attempting to determine whether an electrical malfunction caused the siren to sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Weintraub<br>Communication Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">adam.b.weintraub@hawaii.gov<br>808-620-5417<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022\u00a0\u00a0 Release No. 2022-009 HONOLULU \u2013 An apparent malfunction in the Hawai\u2018i All-Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System Saturday night caused at least one siren on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"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":"9795,9344,8921,8470,8359,8155","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[354,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-354","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15552,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions\/15552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}