Canada nuclear plant: Alert about incident sent in error

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51084859

Note this alert was later revealed to be a false alarm

An emergency alert about an incident at a nuclear power plant in southern Canada was sent to mobile phones by mistake, officials say.

The warning said staff were responding to an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station east of Toronto.

A second alert was sent out almost two hours later saying the initial message had been a mistake. It was not clear what caused the error.

Pickering Mayor Dave Ryan said he was "demanding a full investigation".

The first message was sent out at around 07:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on Sunday, and alerted people who were within 10km (six miles) of the facility. The warning was generated by the Ontario government's Provincial Emergency Operations Centre.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1qzizO6c8

Here is the reports of the Nuclear Alert coverage.

 

[Prescott Joe]

Perhaps the same people who shot down the flight over Iran also operate
the Ontario Provincial Emergency Operations Centre......

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Perhaps the same people who shot down the flight over Iran also operate
the Ontario Provincial Emergency Operations Centre......

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/p...ecalling-hawaiis-false-missile-alert#stream/0


More like the Hawaii Alert from 2 years ago though for a similar reason.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I wish I could post a picture of Homer Simpson saying DOH!

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I wish I could post a picture of Homer Simpson saying DOH!

 

[Yeziknoradio]

The thing that bothers me the most about this is that if it were to happen again any time soon, the whole alert system becomes a "cry wolf" useless pile of garbage.