Got woken up at just around 3:20 in the morning (I get up to go to work at 5) to an emergency alert blasting over mine and my wife's phones:
"WOMAN WITH DEMENTIA MISSING FROM CARE FACILITY IN [town that's an hour from us]"
What the hell am I supposed to do about it? Get up and start walking around my town to see if she's somehow walked all this way? I felt bad for the lady, but this isn't a "wake everybody up in the middle of the night" scenario, just get the cops involved and look around the area where she went missing.
Fiiiiinally just about get back to sleep (took a while because I was fucking furious), must have been about 4:30 and it starts going off again.
"FOUND: MISSING WOMAN IN [town] HAS BEEN LOCATED AND IS SAFE"
Found. They woke me up to let me know there was no emergency. Do not even get me started on the absurdity of it, I'm genuinely still absolutely pissed. Best part is? We can't shut off our emergency alerts. The CRTC mandates that there must not be a way to opt out of them.
Sorry for the rant, your story reminded me of this bullshit and got me all fired up.