Neighbors were being told to shelter in place as police were trying to make contact with a person barricaded inside a home at 2495 South Vine Street in Denver Saturday night.
Police said the alert applies to a two-block radius around the home, despite an earlier alert sent out to a wider area of the city.
The home is located just south of the University of Denver campus. DU gave the all-clear for people on campus, though the situation was ongoing in the 9 p.m. hour.
Police told Denver7 that the inadvertent alert was due to a mixup of some sort at the city’s emergency communications department.
A wireless emergency alert (WEA) was sent to a broader area than intended for an incident at 2495 S. Vine Street. The shelter-in-place alert applies only to a two-block radius around that address and recipients outside that area should disregard the alert.
— Denver Public Safety Department (@DenSafetyDept) January 18, 2026
The circumstances leading up to the person barricading themselves in the residence were not immediately made clear.
This story will be updated.
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