LAFAYETTE — Lafayette’s tornado sirens mistakenly sounded for a full eight minutes just after 3 a.m. Thursday following what city and law enforcement officials are describing as a yet-to-be-diagnosed technical glitch.
Cmdr. Heidi Prentup of the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said the sirens were triggered at 3:07 a.m. by a pager notification for an unrelated police operation. The sirens sounded until dispatchers — alerted by incoming calls from concerned Lafayette residents — shut them down at 3:15 a.m.
Because of the heavy tornado activity earlier in the day, some Lafayette residents said they believed the false alarms were real.
“My wife and I both woke up at the same time and thought, ‘Get the kids in the basement,’ ” Lafayette resident Steve Rodda said. “When it goes off at 3 p.m. and I look around and nothing’s going on, I think it’s a test.
“But after a day full of warnings, in the middle of the night, the first thing in my mind is that it could be real.”
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