{"id":261697,"date":"2026-04-10T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:40:09","slug":"emergency-sirens-activated-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261697\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Sirens Activated By Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland residents were on edge for a few minutes Friday afternoon after the city&#8217;s emergency sirens were mistakenly activated.<\/p>\n<p>The sirens, which normally only heard during tests at noon on the first Wednesdays of the month, were briefly activated about 1:20 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland police and fire officials said the sirens were activated by accident.<\/p>\n<p>Several Oakland residents posted online to NextDoor about the siren activation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.  All rights reserved.  Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland residents were on edge for a few minutes Friday afternoon after the city&#8217;s emergency sirens were mistakenly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-261697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}