[SystemSafety] State: Worker who sent missile alert fired, had 'history' of thinking drills were real

[Chuck_Petras at selinc.com]

Unfortunately the real Hawaii isn't nearly as competent as the fictional 
one I grew up watching on the TV (
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Hawaii-5FFive-2DO-5F-281968-5FTV-5Fseries-29&d=DwIFAw&c=zVFQZQ67ypsA9mYKSCqWmQHiVkCCaN-Gb60_N6TVnLk&r=zCwDz0h_ezUCVpbXoLT-zh0iTVdbymfdnT16kGAgelNE5W_nOFK-pESbjJCRy2gv&m=F-YOyLQyx3ALSiJI8vigLSBrYisWS__TV43xlQxi_Qs&s=Jo41-8101L128l9lWIEBSZuKztCi1m7WWLTMie2G0b8&e=).

This just in...

"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
"In a stunning revelation Tuesday, state investigators said the emergency 
management employee who sent out the false missile alert to Hawaii phones 
? triggering 38 minutes of panic until a correction could be sent ? 
believed the threat of an incoming missile was real and had a history of 
confusing drills with real-world events."
[snip]
"The state's report also reveals:
-Other employees realized a real alert had been sent when they got it on 
their phones.
-About five minutes after the alert was sent, an employee told the worker 
who sent the missile message to cancel it so that it would no longer 
transmit to phone. But the worker who triggered the alert "just sat there 
and didn't respond." 
-The state worker who sent the alert has at least twice before believed 
drills to be real-world events.
-Those two incidents included a "fire incident and a tsunami incident," 
officials said. 
-Further, the state worker had been a concern to "state warning point" 
employees for more than a decade and that his performance "has been 
counseled and documented.", 

State: Worker who sent missile alert fired, had 'history' of thinking 
drills were real
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.hawaiinewsnow.com_story_37384196_fcc-2Demployee-2Dwho-2Dsent-2Dfalse-2Dmissile-2Dalert-2Dbelieved-2Dthreat-2Dwas-2Dreal&d=DwIFAw&c=zVFQZQ67ypsA9mYKSCqWmQHiVkCCaN-Gb60_N6TVnLk&r=zCwDz0h_ezUCVpbXoLT-zh0iTVdbymfdnT16kGAgelNE5W_nOFK-pESbjJCRy2gv&m=F-YOyLQyx3ALSiJI8vigLSBrYisWS__TV43xlQxi_Qs&s=dnkC_69epUUWvSrcoArH4Ft9VpSNrJNcTVXl5nwtVjI&e=


Chuck Petras, PE**
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Pullman, WA  99163  USA
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