A Hawaii Emergency Management Agency employee was fired after sending an emergency alert warning of a ballistic missile to the entire state.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As federal investigators work to get to the bottom of the mistaken missile alert in Hawaii, regulators in Illinois say they are reassessing the state's emergency alarm system.

Questions have since been raised about why it took 38 minutes to send a subsequent message explaining that the initial alert was a mistake. Later on, Hawaii Gov. David Ige apologized for the error, ...

Hawaiian residents and vacationers spent 38 horrific minutes preparing for an incoming ballistic missile and possible death on Saturday, until the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency corrected a false ...

With just minutes to prepare for the worst, those in Hawaii did the best they could to brace themselves for the threat of an imminent missile impact. Jarring footage posted to social media shows ...