KONTAN.CO.ID - Panic and confusion swept Hawaii on Saturday as a mistaken alert about a ballistic missile attack spread across the Pacific U.S. state, sending residents and tourists scrambling for shelter and questioning why an all-clear was not issued faster. Rhonda Ramirez and Michael Sterling, both 56 and from Los Angeles, were staying at a hotel in the Waikiki tourist district when the state emergency agency issued the bogus alert at 8:07 a.m. HAST (1807 GMT). Ramirez, a mortgage broker, "immediately started crying. I was thinking, 'What could we do? There is nothing we can do with a missile,'" said Sterling, a law firm employee.
Tears and panic as false missile alert unnerves Hawaii
KONTAN.CO.ID - Panic and confusion swept Hawaii on Saturday as a mistaken alert about a ballistic missile attack spread across the Pacific U.S. state, sending residents and tourists scrambling for shelter and questioning why an all-clear was not issued faster. Rhonda Ramirez and Michael Sterling, both 56 and from Los Angeles, were staying at a hotel in the Waikiki tourist district when the state emergency agency issued the bogus alert at 8:07 a.m. HAST (1807 GMT). Ramirez, a mortgage broker, "immediately started crying. I was thinking, 'What could we do? There is nothing we can do with a missile,'" said Sterling, a law firm employee.