An immediate evacuation notice from the Emergency Alert System that interrupted regular TV programming in the Los Angeles area Wednesday, telling the entirety of L.A. County and the "Eastern North Pacific Ocean" area to evacuate due to a fire was sent in "error" by Los Angeles County, the Ventura County Sheriff said.LA evacuation order for entire 'Eastern North Pacific Ocean' area an 'error,' officials say https://t.co/GggKXpvLzY pic.twitter.com/oBX4TYRHCA
— New York Post (@nypost) September 1, 2022
“A civil authority has issued an IMMEDIATE EVACUATION NOTICE for the following counties or areas: Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Port Conception to Guadalupe Island, Eastern North Pacific; Los Angeles, CA; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; Eastern North Pacific Ocean; at 5:08 PM on AUG 31, 2022 Effective until 8:08 PM.”
However, the L.A. County's Office of Emergency Management told Fox News Digital the message was "properly formatted" and should not have "triggered an EAS evacuation" but it didn't have an immediate answer for the "root causes" of the incident.
Soon after the alert went out, the Ventura County sheriff tweeted: “The evacuation notice that was received by some Ventura County Residents on television was sent in error by the County of Los Angeles. There is no threat to Ventura County at this time and no need for residents to evacuate.”
LOL
California is a great place. Yesterday they sent an emergency evacuation warning to Los Angeles in error. They may need to tell people not to charge their cars due to power shortages. Had the threat to LA been real, how would all the dead cars get out if they can’t be charged?
— stewgotz (@reachmikeystew) September 1, 2022
