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.

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

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.

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,” Supervisor Janice Hahn said.