FEMA to revamp training programs after Hawaii emergency alert bungle

Published February 6, 2018 6:09pm ET



The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s director of continuity communications told congressional investigators on Tuesday that FEMA was re-evaluating its training programs and public awareness strategies, after it took 38 minutes for Hawaii emergency officials to correct a false incoming ballistic missile alert sent in January.

“When there is that type of uncertainty in the community that points back, in my opinion, to some of our training offerings,” Antwane Johnson told the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness.

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