RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Wireless Emergency Alerts allow public safety officials to send warnings directly to cell phones in case of a potentially life-threatening incident. Recently, though, erroneous alerts have gone out with long delays in correcting the messages.
It isn’t a new concept. False alarms aren’t new, either.
On Feb. 20, 1971, at 9:33 a.m. on a Saturday, wire service teletypes across the United States spit out an… READ MORE
