A rude awakening overnight Thursday for likely thousands of Fort Worth residents, as the emergency siren system in the city rang out at approximately 1:30 a.m.
The cause of the sirens was a malfunction, according to Juan Ortiz, the Emergency Management Coordinator for Fort Worth. And the malfunction appears to have triggered all of the approximately 150 sirens that the city is responsible for, Ortiz said.
"This is the first time that the system has had this type of malfunction," Ortiz told NBC 5.
As of Thursday morning, the exact cause of the malfunction had not yet been determined, Ortiz said.
The sirens were triggered shortly after 1:30 a.m., and sounded for upwards of two minutes, according to multiple sources.
Calls flooded the NBC 5 newsroom from startled viewers about the sirens, coming in from locations near the campus of Texas Christian University, Benbrook and Burleson.
The Fort Worth office of the National Weather Service tweeted about the sirens shortly after the incident.
"The Outdoor Warning Siren at our office went off at 135am. Be advised, there is NO hazardous weather/events in the area! #txwx"
The concern that is most troubling for those investigating the cause, aside from the actual cause of the malfunction, is that any malfunction may lead to a "Boy who cried wolf" scenario.
"Anytime that the system malfunctions it jeopardizes the integrity of the goal, which is to alert and warn citizens of an emergency or impending disaster," Ortiz told NBC 5.
In order to determine the cause of the malfunction, the system's automatic function has been disabled, meaning they would not automatically be triggered if an actual emergency were to arise. Ortiz said that while that is the case, there will be a person at the controls who can manually set off the sirens in the event of true danger.
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