(Le Mars) — Over the weekend, many people were probably confused if they participate in the Plymouth County Alert system, since they would have received notifications through a text message, or through their email, that said Plymouth County had a “Fire Warning,” followed up by a “Blizzard Warning.” Duane Walhoff is the Plymouth County Emergency Management
Director and says the company behind the program was testing their system, and noticed a computer software problem.
Fortunately, the weather conditions over the weekend were favorable, and would not warrant such warning alerts. Walhoff says he received numerous phone calls inquiring about the false warning alerts.
Walhoff says multiple Iowa counties received the false alerts. He says the problem has now been resolved. The Plymouth County Emergency Management Director says up to as many as 4,000 people living in Plymouth County perhaps received the false alerts on Saturday.
