Warning: Footage contains explicit language.
Footage has emerged appearing to show the moment a terrified parent in Hawaii scrambled to lower their child into a storm drain after a missile alert was accidentally sent out.
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The video shows a child saying ‘I don’t want to go in’ as she is lowered into the drain while panicked adults shout in the background.
Panic tore through the US state after residents were told to ‘seek immediate shelter’, and were warned that ‘this is not a drill’.
The warning said in capitals: ‘BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. ‘SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.’
Hawaii state representative Matt LoPresti told CNN: ‘I was sitting in the bathtub with my children, saying our prayers.’
One person wrote: ‘This morning was really scary. Just wanted to let you know, if Hawaii ever gets nuked, I love you all and the run we had was fun. I appreciate each of you.’
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My friend in Hawaii got the alert and had to quickly choose between which members of his family he would spend his last moments on Earth with because they were ALL too far apart from each other. He had to make the difficult choice of going immediately to his youngest children. pic.twitter.com/n8LNPiVscP
— Gene Park (@GenePark) January 13, 2018
This was my phone when I woke up just now. I'm in Honolulu, #Hawaii and my family is on the North Shore. They were hiding in the garage. My mom and sister were crying. It was a false alarm, but betting a lot of people are shaken. @KPRC2pic.twitter.com/m6EKxH3QqQ
— Sara Donchey (@KPRC2Sara) January 13, 2018
Another said: ‘Sirens are going off in Hawaii about a missile threat inbound to Hawaii. What the heck is happening? I don’t even know where to go bruh.’
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While one Twitter user added: ‘WHY DID I JUST GET A EMERGENCY SAYING THERE’S A BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII N ITS NOT A DRILL….’
Tourists at hotels were being instructed to stay indoors immediately after the alert.
The false alert is believed to have been sent out accidentally, after someone ‘pushed the wrong button’ during an employee shift change, Hawaii Governor David Ige told CNN.
BREAKING: Hawaii Governor David Ige tells CNN that someone "pushed the wrong button" during an employee shift change, sending out the false alert about an incoming ballistic missilepic.twitter.com/IS7szfReOr
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 13, 2018
A spokesman for the U.S. military’s Pacific command said it ‘detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii’ and warning had been sent in error.
Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz says a false alarm about a missile threat was based on ‘human error’ and was ‘totally inexcusable.’
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