Scary Moments That Were False Alarms

these scary situations ended up being false alarms in 2018 Millions across the East Coast got warnings about a tsunami the same thing happened three weeks before when a false missile scare sent citizens scrambling in Hawaii so this time some found humor in the situation nice to see that guy from Hawaii found a new job tweeted one jokester but others pointed out a real concern given up false warnings when the real one comes and no one will pay attention these aren't things that are done on purpose these are mistakes and these are people that are trying to keep us safe people that day in and day out are prepared to help us and and we're all human mistakes happen here's what happened the National Weather Service conducted monthly tests of its warning system that went out to newsrooms and weather advisory Services one of those Services AccuWeather mistook the test for an actual warning and issued the false Alert in 2021 this airport chaos occurred when an antique camera was mistaken for a bomb passengers at LaGuardia Airport in New York raced to safety after their American Airlines flight from Indianapolis made an emergency landing there's a bomb spot we thought the play was going to blow up because of the turbulence and the way it landed and the way he said just Evacuate the plane right now inside edition's Allison Hall explains passengers mistook the vintage camera like this one to be the bomb they say the man took it out mid-flight and started fiddling with the camera The Joint terrorism task force determined that there was no crime and the passenger was released I think they're still shooting in 2016 there was total panic at a mall in Orlando in terrified Shoppers ran for their lives they all thought an active shooter was on the loose there's children falling like people are dragging children people are getting stepped on there are elderly people falling I mean it was absolute man nine people were injured and the mall was evacuated and it was all a false alarm Les Trent explains in these tense times the slightest thing can set off Mass hysteria so what caused the panic in the mall in Orlando turns out it was six balloons being popped as part of the test of the fire alarm system you can just imagine how Shoppers could mistake the noise for gunfire balloons were in the mall and topped multiple people thought they were gunshots we're getting multiple reports for Falls due to everyone scrambling a similar occurrence happened the same year when chaos erupted at nyc's JFK airport after passengers mistakenly thought a terrorist opened fire but it was another false alarm reportedly caused by fans cheering on Usain Bolt during the Olympics also in 2016 hundreds of passengers ran for their lives at Los Angeles International Airport after false reports of shots fired people poured into the tarmac I know cops responded and the airport was locked down for over two hours ground uh this is United 488 apparently there's an active shooting in the terminal can you please advise us what's happening yeah we can uh please confirm that there's a people running in the streets here NBC News Anchorman Lester Holt was caught up in the pandemonium and reported live on Facebook people started flooding out of the door down toward the tarmac there were TSA and other security people saying why active shooter shots fired afterward it was determined that the wild scene was caused by a loud noise for Inside Edition digital I'm Andreas Wendel

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Length: 3min 59sec (239 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 03 2023