Around 4:15 p.m., another alert was sent out by the the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management asking residents to disregard the previous alert, as it was only intended for the Kenneth fire, which erupted near West Hills bordering Los Angeles and Ventura counties earlier in the afternoon.

While the message was intended for residents of Woodland Hills, officials say the registration location of the phones might have caused a wider distribution.

A wireless emergency evacuation alert was sent to residents across Los Angeles County on Thursday afternoon. However, it was meant for people in the order and warning zones for the Kenneth Fire in Woodland Hills.

Beverley Hills residents received “another evacuation alert from the LA County Fire Department” but officials “confirmed this was another error."

Millions in Los Angeles County mistakenly received emergency alerts telling them to evacuate. It happened not just once, but twice, with the second incident on Friday. The mistakes created panic across the region,

An emergency alert about an evacuation warning was sent out to cellphones across most of Los Angeles County Thursday afternoon, but the alert was issued in error.

An evacuation alert was mistakenly sent to 10 million Los Angeles County residents and then retracted more than 20 minutes later, adding to tensions as Southern California endured a third day of catastrophic fires.

Los Angeles County residents received an evacuation warning in error Thursday as another fire sparked that afternoon.