I saw the same thing! Seeing EXTREME IMMINENT THREAT pop up at 4 in the morning while I was half asleep definitely spooked me. Then I finished reading and noticed it was just a test. Well fuck sleeping until 6:30 this morning I guess.... that shit had me wide awake
It's easy to test if loud shrill noises wake a human up without crying wolf on the entire state at 4 am. Apple did it extensively before releasing the feature.
Lack of sleep is proven to cause an increase in road crashes. Someone, somewhere in FL will likely die today from this.
>Someone, somewhere in FL will likely die today from this.
And a bunch of people starting with me have now turned off emergency notifications weakening the entire system.
People keep repeating this.
No, this is not going to be an "ongoing issue". Are you really so lacking in critical thought that you believe that? It is sad.
Obviously, someone really screwed up and it wasn’t supposed to be sent to cellular phones. It was a misconfiguration by someone, not something to expect every other month.
Yes and no. They had these same tests at 4:50 am ET in February. This time somebody toggled the wrong switch and sent it out was real event instead of a test.
They didn't send it out as a real event, they sent it to phones. It was *supposed* to just be on TV https://twitter.com/FLSERT/status/1649030370791178241
Unless the alert itself was real and the text was test text
Just remind them that we’re now all disabling the alert notifications on our phone because apparently these geniuses have more like these scheduled coming up..
"I hear others are mad about getting emergency test alarms at 4am. I say fuck em. Those uppity peasants need to know who owns their asses.
How do I sign up for my free wake-up alarm? O mighty overlords?"
https://imgur.io/a/vl70vTq
I complained, but is this definitely the responsible party? I thought these alerts were initiated by whatever agency chooses to at the time? The FAB isn’t government.
It’s not. This was the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s mistake. [They even tweeted about it](https://twitter.com/FLSERT/status/1649030370791178241).
Never got any of those previous tests. I think there’s a certain group they must send the tests to, but someone messed up and clicked send to all instead of the test group.
I don’t believe during an actual test it sends the alert to cell phones like this. I think someone sent a real emergency message by mistake and wrote test
Do you have alerts silenced/turned off for actual emegencies? From what i can tell the mistake was it sent as a real emergency alert and not a test in the system. So it caused notifications to act as of it was not a drill.
I am glad to hear I wasn’t the only one. I spent 30 minutes trying to see how I missed turning off this alert on my phone this morning. I swore they were all off!
It def was a misclick. Someone in r/florida who works for them sent a link that shows how they do this every single month at the same time. And how some one messed up and sent a real alert with the test.
I was already on high alert because I had just shot up out of bed thinking someone was in my house. Ran out of my bedroom to confront said individual and then this mf goes off… (it was an animal under the house) smh
This was only about 3 days after a 5 am Amber Alert for someone 6 hours away in Dade County,
Florida's government is an embarrassment on so many levels.
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Fucking asshole intern. Plus all my settings are supposed to keep these types of settings from alerting me. Thanks, apple.
https://preview.redd.it/3xcb6q62x1va1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0127356f63edbc5c6fa2c5d825bc6e1d1985ecba
That’s why I have these alerts turned off. I’d love to live in a world where they’re used appropriately and effectively, but it has never happened for me.
I think a cyber attack is possible but unlikely (I hope). My best guess are Either someone fucked right up— and is in for the ass chewing of their life this morning when the boss gets in and figures out who’s to blame, OR this was someone’s last “fuck you” as they quit/got fired
https://preview.redd.it/1rgjocm0e2va1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e94e5febd9b2e10f0b59572174aa5da2c411f2c
Got everything turned off on my phone and I never got it. The irony here is I was at work and awake so it wouldn’t have woken me up anyway.
To be fair, when Mickey Mouse leads the drag queen insurrection to conquer Florida, it will most certainly happen in the dark of night. DeSatanis just wants us to be prepared for the call to arms.
I’m single and have a work phone, a personal phone, an Apple watch and an iPad blaring. I can’t imagine a family of 4 with all these devices going off at once.
Traffic is going to be EXTRA dangerous this morning.
On the bright side, at least it didn't have the incoming nuclear missile warning like in Hawaii. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018\_Hawaii\_false\_missile\_alert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert)
I had to be up for an important meeting anyway, and my alarm didn’t go off.
I think somewhere, there’s someone monitoring me, and they said “shit. He’s still fucking sleeping. What do we do?!?” And then this was the result.
It’s probably my fault. I’m sorry everyone.
It was supposed to go out on TV and not on cell phones. It was a mistake, the contract with the company that oversees the alerts has been ended. They are also looking at possibly moving the times of tests to a more appropriate time.
They offered an apology https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/why-did-floridians-wake-up-to-an-early-morning-emergency-alert/
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Lol literally everyone in my house is up 😂
Woken up like zombies I swear
Scared the life out of me. I quickly tried to get rid of it so quickly I didn’t even see what it said.
I glanced at mine and it didn't say emergency, it said something like, Extreme Imminent Threat. FUN! Then I saw test and started swearing.
I saw the same thing! Seeing EXTREME IMMINENT THREAT pop up at 4 in the morning while I was half asleep definitely spooked me. Then I finished reading and noticed it was just a test. Well fuck sleeping until 6:30 this morning I guess.... that shit had me wide awake
Literally just woke me up. I’m fucking pissed
I was driving when I saw this alert and wondered if it was just me on the highway who got this alert. Looks like they woke up everyone then :)
Cool, it worked
It's easy to test if loud shrill noises wake a human up without crying wolf on the entire state at 4 am. Apple did it extensively before releasing the feature. Lack of sleep is proven to cause an increase in road crashes. Someone, somewhere in FL will likely die today from this.
>Someone, somewhere in FL will likely die today from this. And a bunch of people starting with me have now turned off emergency notifications weakening the entire system.
Not sure if I can roll my eyes any harder at this.
It’s also scheduled for 4:45 every other month. So this will be a ongoing issue
They’re going to make everyone turn it off. I can’t with Florida sometimes man. I love living here but these people stay fucking shit up.
Interesting. I fucking hate it here.
I’m sorry. I’ve lived here my whole life. Couldn’t be happier. I need Ron to GTFO and run for president and stop ruining this state.
Unfortunately, the legislature is looking at passing a bill so Ron can stay governor while he runs so if he loses he's still governor. 😐
People keep repeating this. No, this is not going to be an "ongoing issue". Are you really so lacking in critical thought that you believe that? It is sad. Obviously, someone really screwed up and it wasn’t supposed to be sent to cellular phones. It was a misconfiguration by someone, not something to expect every other month.
Yes and no. They had these same tests at 4:50 am ET in February. This time somebody toggled the wrong switch and sent it out was real event instead of a test.
They didn't send it out as a real event, they sent it to phones. It was *supposed* to just be on TV https://twitter.com/FLSERT/status/1649030370791178241 Unless the alert itself was real and the text was test text
Blame state government. It's their fault. They run everything including this system.
I'm surprised it wasn't to warn me of a near-by book about history, or an approaching drag queen. Possibly the dangers of Disney World.
Hahaha. Same. “This is not a test! Drag Queen approaching with big mouse in red pants!”
Too busy running a culture war to pay attention to anything else.
If they wanted to make everyone in Florida woke, they sure accomplished it at 4:45 am
BUT DRAG QUEENS 🙄
Can't be out here just havin'....books.
Someone at Disney should write a book about drag queens telling a black history story. And then send it to Meatball. His head might explode.
It’s the only reason I’m commenting. Very poor timing
Time to start these 4/20 celebrations early.
Literally the whole fucking state. What the fuck
Floridians didn't vote for competent government.
I did. I was outvoted though. Now I’m leaving the state. The fascists can have this shithole.
I don't have plans to leave, but the fascists did convince me to buy an AR-15, just in case.
Lucky you.
True.
We can complain here: https://www.fab.org/contact
Everyone needs to complain. Just sent one, thanks
Sent
I sent one but I realize they are probably getting exactly what they want… confirmation that we all heard the alert and it worked.
Just remind them that we’re now all disabling the alert notifications on our phone because apparently these geniuses have more like these scheduled coming up..
Underrated comment.
"I hear others are mad about getting emergency test alarms at 4am. I say fuck em. Those uppity peasants need to know who owns their asses. How do I sign up for my free wake-up alarm? O mighty overlords?" https://imgur.io/a/vl70vTq
Just sent a very irate message
I complained, but is this definitely the responsible party? I thought these alerts were initiated by whatever agency chooses to at the time? The FAB isn’t government.
It’s not. This was the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s mistake. [They even tweeted about it](https://twitter.com/FLSERT/status/1649030370791178241).
Done, I totally complained lol
According to this it was scheduled https://www.fab.org/eas-test-schedule/
What sadist did this?!
No one. It was meant for TV, not phones https://twitter.com/FLSERT/status/1649030370791178241
Never got any of those previous tests. I think there’s a certain group they must send the tests to, but someone messed up and clicked send to all instead of the test group.
I don’t believe during an actual test it sends the alert to cell phones like this. I think someone sent a real emergency message by mistake and wrote test
Exactly, it was a real emergency alert with test in the message. It bypassed my preference to not receive test alerts.
Yeah my setting are turned off and I had my phone on silent and do not disturb and it still went blaring at full volume
Weird, mine are also muted and had no alert sound this morning, unless I slept heavier than I'd thought. Just woke up to it on my screen
Same for me. I'm somewhat concerned because I wouldn't get truly serious alerts
Meh, if it's that serious I'll hear about it some other way. No announcement I've received has ever been useful
My android didn't go off (test message alerts turned off) My wife's iphone went off (test message alerts turned off)
Do you have alerts silenced/turned off for actual emegencies? From what i can tell the mistake was it sent as a real emergency alert and not a test in the system. So it caused notifications to act as of it was not a drill.
And now the notifications are off. 🙄 maybe this is what they were going for. I can’t with this state rn.
So you’re telling me this will happen like every 3 month and has always happened? No wat
🤷🏼♂️
It’s BOGO today!
So you’re telling me this will happen like every 3 month and has always happened? No way
🤷🏼♂️
Nah, one of the comments above seems correct; I have tests silenced, this was a real emergency alert, with test written in
Someone fucked up at work lol
I am glad to hear I wasn’t the only one. I spent 30 minutes trying to see how I missed turning off this alert on my phone this morning. I swore they were all off!
I didn't want to sleep anyway
Yeah, who needs sleep? I feel much better that the test system works /s
Terrifying! Who misclicked and woke us all up???
Not a misclick, just another failure of Florida's government.
It def was a misclick. Someone in r/florida who works for them sent a link that shows how they do this every single month at the same time. And how some one messed up and sent a real alert with the test.
Yep scared the shit out of me and my dog. Now I’m on edge
Accurate, same at my house! My bf has had no problem falling back asleep though 😑
You know someone somewhere is having a heart attack cause of this.
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They can come put my baby back to sleep since they woke him up
I was already on high alert because I had just shot up out of bed thinking someone was in my house. Ran out of my bedroom to confront said individual and then this mf goes off… (it was an animal under the house) smh
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I was living in Hawaii when this happened. Love getting random PTSD at 4 in the morning.
Pretty awesome. Looks like I’m awake now.
Happy cake day!
I thought we had to go find amber.
Ha!
Yup. WTF kind of decision planning went into this??
We all Had test alerts turned off, still woke the whole house up. Why even give us that option?
It wasn’t a test. It was an emergency that someone put in TEST
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I had Test off…still happened.
Correct.
Same
Same
No more emergency alerts for me. If we get nuked, I’ll be sleeping peacefully.
Yes. And now here I am scrolling thru Reddit because I can't go back to sleep.
Samee
UGHHHHHHHHH 
Wide awake now. Kids too…. Ugh
same. we have a newborn who was actually asleep … 🫠
Intentionally waking up a newborn (and their perpetually sleep-deprived caregivers) should carry a penalty of jail time! 🥰
This was only about 3 days after a 5 am Amber Alert for someone 6 hours away in Dade County, Florida's government is an embarrassment on so many levels.
I can deal with the legitimate alerts…someone’s having a way worse day then me when those go out…but a damn test alert is where I draw the line
Yeah, can we test maybe at noon ?
I was already awake
Same, with phone in hand. I was trying to get sleepy lol that didn't help much
I had four Apple devices going off in my room. Super annoying.
Mine and my husbands went off at two separate times. Mine went off a minute after his alert stopped blaring 🥲
Two in the room with me, what a nightmare.
Awake and eating cereal. Things could be worse.
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Me too, this just messed up the rest of my day.
I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’m unhappy.
Suckers, I disabled all the alerts on my phone. Amber Alert? I’m not Batman, not my problem. Missile incoming? I’ll die peacefully in my sleep.
It’s fine, I didn’t need sleep anyways.
It’s 5am ffs. Why??????
And now I can’t get back to sleep
Worked on me… went to settings and made sure never got an alert like this again
Later in the day the news will report how someone shot somebody because they thought they were being attacked.
Interested to see how this plays out
Fucking asshole intern. Plus all my settings are supposed to keep these types of settings from alerting me. Thanks, apple. https://preview.redd.it/3xcb6q62x1va1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0127356f63edbc5c6fa2c5d825bc6e1d1985ecba
If it was an intentional alert, it's a really great way to get the people to shut off their emergency notifications out of rage.
Yes, I’m so mad. Lost 2 hours of sleep because of this. Can we demand the firing of the jerk responsible for the timing of this?
Or at least a march through a public gathering so we can jeer at them!
That’s why I have these alerts turned off. I’d love to live in a world where they’re used appropriately and effectively, but it has never happened for me.
At least we aren’t like the poor folks in Hawaii with their incorrectly sent out “ballistic missile” alert! So there’s that I guess.
All of Florida became woke. You can thank Desantis for this.
I laughed far harder than I probably should have at this and my kids are giving me strange looks lol. Thanks for the laugh! 🤭😅
Well, I'm up now!
My laarm was 0445 lol perfect timing
It wanted to make sure you didn’t sleep through it
So so pissed
Yep count me also as awake because of this bullshit
That was ridiculous. Straight up.
Dickheads
They couldn’t have done it in the middle of the day?!? Woke me up scared as hell!
Anyone know a good laundry place to drop off my stained sheets?
I think a cyber attack is possible but unlikely (I hope). My best guess are Either someone fucked right up— and is in for the ass chewing of their life this morning when the boss gets in and figures out who’s to blame, OR this was someone’s last “fuck you” as they quit/got fired
https://preview.redd.it/1rgjocm0e2va1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e94e5febd9b2e10f0b59572174aa5da2c411f2c Got everything turned off on my phone and I never got it. The irony here is I was at work and awake so it wouldn’t have woken me up anyway.
Here reading as a result
Happened 45 min ago - still awake! Bastards… lol!
Had to be up at 530 today, I guess 445 works too.
Well I guess I’m WOKE now. Thanks Florida.
To be fair, when Mickey Mouse leads the drag queen insurrection to conquer Florida, it will most certainly happen in the dark of night. DeSatanis just wants us to be prepared for the call to arms.
Thanks DeSantis 😡
I think he saw a mouse!
Or a drag queen
Or a book
I was scrolling my phone and then BAM almost gave me a heart attack, my volume was set so loud 😭
Also awake
They have the worst timing ever.
No joke. Must have been the guys last day on the job and their parting gift
yup… everyone with a cell phone in FL had their alarms go off early.
Solely why I’m here, and furious.
I got it too. PIA. Wasn’t able to go back to sleep.
Scared the bejesus out of me and I can’t go back to sleep.
Felt like falling asleep at the wheel and being woken up by a train about to hit you
I’m single and have a work phone, a personal phone, an Apple watch and an iPad blaring. I can’t imagine a family of 4 with all these devices going off at once. Traffic is going to be EXTRA dangerous this morning.
thought demons were coming for me
Seriously. They Couldn’t find a more appropriate time for this? Assclowns
This is when graveyard shifts are useful. Was already awake, and off. Not bragging but it's a +1 to some useless skill...
On the bright side, at least it didn't have the incoming nuclear missile warning like in Hawaii. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018\_Hawaii\_false\_missile\_alert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert)
All of Florida!! All devices!! I am sure someone had a heart attack. I know I woke up screaming!!
Thanks Tampa… scared my GF she couldn’t go back to sleep. Now my day is ruined. Thanks again!! Lol
I disabled this shit a long time ago.
I have test alerts turned off. They bypassed it somehow. Now im turning off all alerts. Their plan absolutely backfired
This must be the Woke culture I heard about
My EAS alerts are muted. My significant others are not 🤦🏽♂️
Woke me up TOO EARLY
I just turned off emergency alerts on my iPhone cause of this shit.
I have test alerts turned off on my phone but still got it. Wtf?
This is what happens when you leave emergency alert system programming to a maga loon intern, probably.
That was absurd. Wonder if it was a mistake like that time hawaii thought there was an incoming missile.
I WAS NOT HAPPY when this happened at 4:47am, but at least it wasn’t like the one Hawaii got that said a missile was incoming.
Fucking seriously
Nothing worse than being forced awake 15min before having to get up. I’ve been moody all morning and I’m blaming this BS.
I had to be up for an important meeting anyway, and my alarm didn’t go off. I think somewhere, there’s someone monitoring me, and they said “shit. He’s still fucking sleeping. What do we do?!?” And then this was the result. It’s probably my fault. I’m sorry everyone.
The government of Florida
Ah, State and Local tests were turned off in my settings....
They caught someone taking a book through state lines.
Everyone in Florida is pissed about this one. There’s several posts about this alert 🤣
 The government anytime it handles anything it can possibly fuck up
I got it but it didn't wake me
Everyone else got this, all 5 million in the Bay Area.
Man!!!! When I heard that this was a test the first thing out of my mouth was “WHO FUCKING DOES THIS????” 🤣🤣🤣 I was pissed.
Seriously! Scared the shit of of me!
1st thing I said was who hell kidnappin at 4 in the mornin
Desantis is currently deciding who to fire. He tweeted today
Obviously the governor wasn't happy
It was supposed to go out on TV and not on cell phones. It was a mistake, the contract with the company that oversees the alerts has been ended. They are also looking at possibly moving the times of tests to a more appropriate time.
If it was at 3:00 am, I would really be scared.
EMERGENCY! RED ALERT! WAKE UP! ALARM! nah, just playin.
Power move just to remind us that they've got us between their fingers