Sentences with phrase «it's a false alarm»

AMMAN (Reuters)- A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and no new attack on Syria took place, Syrian state media and a military commander said on Tuesday.

As Hawaii's false alarm suggests, the latter may come with a few minutes to a half - hour of warning.

A Japanese public broadcaster issued a false alarm about a North Korean missile launch today.

He was also charged accused of making a false alarm, which carries a felony charge.

In Hawaii, it took 38 harrowing minutes to confirm the false alarm.

But the false alarm sparked outrage from local politicians, as it took more than half an hour to correct.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard also took to CNN after the incident to say said she was concerned about what might've happened to people on the islands if it hadn't been a false alarm.

He also told CBS News «we're taking a deep breath knowing that it was a false alarm,» but added on Twitter that the mistake was «totally inexcusable,» and the whole state had been terrified.

The Washington Post reported that new, high - tech scanners search for organic compounds in explosives, which sometimes leads to false alarms when scanning food items.

The software, part of a project dubbed Chronicle, uses machine learning to filter out false alarms so that technicians can concentrate on only the most important warnings.

Emergency authorities reversed the warning with a second mobile alert sent 38 minutes later confirming «no missile threat or danger» and «false alarm.»

It was probably 30 minutes between the alert and when we knew it was a false alarm.»

«It was a false alarm based on human error,» Democratic Senator Brian Schatz said on Twitter, adding that the incident was «totally inexcusable.»

• Superion, a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, acquired Public Safety Corporation, a Waldorf, M.D. - based provider of false alarm tracking.

Earlier this month, a false alarm that a ballistic missile was headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake.

Their lives would be easier if they could filter out all the false alarms and concentrate on only the most important ones.

Unrest at large calderas rarely ends in eruption, encouraging vulnerable communities to perceive emergency warnings of volcanic activity as false alarms.

«Bond yields may have sent a false alarm.

You often can set parameters for your notifications, too, such as being notified only about withdrawals that are over a certain amount, to cut down on false alarms.

A false alarm in Hawaii shows that they didn't anticipate how media works in the smartphone era.

If yes then they were removed because it failed the test and made passenger waiting line longer since it gave false alarm as to sweat and metal buttons such as those you find on jeans trousers... It was Germany who first rejected that and returned it to the American Producers.

We saw firetrucks outside the Kingdom Hall here in town and were waiting to see the flames shooting from the roof... damn false alarms!

Remembering his compulsion for big talk, a great many of his fellow countrymen began to feel that the American candidate for the four - minute mile was only a false alarm.

Semi will be more than capable to hold tightly one of our CB positions for us if what you said is not a false alarm.

Little wonder that in Memphis, as the BC squad scampered down a hotel fire escape during a false alarm one afternoon before the game, wide receiver Gerard Phelan yelled, «Women, children and Doug Flutie first!»

In the 2 + years that we used it, we had 4 - 5 false alarms where he'd crawled over to the side.

Former Arsenal Invincible Kolo Toure has become Twitter King for the day with a message for Piers Morgan to «shut the f**k up» amid a row over the false alarm on Oxford Street this week.

There have of course been false alarms before, but the movement on and off the pitch seems to have helped.

In an October 2015 Sports Illustrated article, a number of experts said that, while impact sensors showed enormous potential for research, and as a second set of eyes, and believed such promise would grow as the technology improved, they were skeptical about their current value, especially because of their cost, and vulnerability to false alarms.

He requested to go but it was a false alarm.

I know he understands the concept as we had a couple false alarms where he only passed gas once he is on the toliet.

At first he said no then wanted to, and then first had a false alarm or could relax to release but then he went!

They can lead to false alarms and unnecessary money and testing being done on infants that don't need it.

As far as false alarms in the high chair I've brought their food and water to the potty with them and that usually does the trick....

You might think you're in labour but it might be a false alarm.

How weird because it 100 % avoids any such false alarms!

Many women, particularly first - time moms, get into false alarms and trips to the hospital.

The thing that struck me the most after our false alarm was that my first inclination was to determine if there was a fire instead of getting to a safe place.

It didn't feel «clean» while rinsing, but that's a false alarm.

Bernstein said Strike Guard has represented the system to the park district as «a new technology, which is supposed to limit positives, or false alarms, and it's cheaper to maintain and operate.»

NIPT looks at fetal DNA in the mother's blood and has been shown to be more accurate than traditional predecessors, which means fewer false alarms that trigger avoidable additional testing.

Now, keep in mind, there is still the chance of a false alarm.

In some cases, breathing monitors may also cause false alarms, which can panic parents and make them feel very uneasy.

Ask any embryologist, and they'll tell you that the real cost is in having to race to the lab at 3:00 am on a Saturday morning only to find a false alarm.

While this has never happened to me, some parents have complained that the pad tends to be oversensitive, which means they get many false alarms.

Ideally, you want to minimize the number of false alarms by adjusting the sensitivity level accordingly.

Many women have been through false alarms during pregnancy.

Leave a comment on the article and share with us what you might have noted about your baby's sleep cycles and the times when you had a false alarm about your baby experiencing sleep regression.

However, it is important that you properly set up this monitor, so that it does not give any false alarms instigated by the heating systems or the air conditioner.

One downside to continuous monitoring is that it can create false alarms that can lead to other interventions like c - sections that may not have been truly necessary.