Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn is proposing that the county’s emergency alert system be disabled until a solution to the technical error that causes millions to erroneously receive evacuation warnings is fixed.

An emergency alert issuing an evacuation warning for all of Los Angeles County was sent out by accident, according to officials. “I have been informed the evacuation warning that many of us just received on our phones was mistakenly issued countywide due to a technical 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.

An alert to evacuate from the Los Angeles County Fire department Thursday afternoon appeared to have been sent in error.