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            A series of alarms raised alarm in Kodiak on Friday. In the early afternoon, the city tsunami warning sirens went off several times leaving residents wondering if it was "the real deal."

            As it turns out, it was a false alarm; several false alarms in fact. A battery problem caused the alarm to go off on its own a number of times before it was fixed.

            The Kodiak Police Department was inundated with calls Friday, from people trying to figure out why the sirens were sounding. Lieutenant Ray Ellis said that the high number of phone calls presented the police with another problem as they attempted to deal with the sirens.

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            Once, the cutting edge of navigation technology, signals from the LORAN system will soon fade into history. Most of Alaska's "Long Range Aids to Navigation" or "LORAN"stations, which began broadcasting in World War Two, will be turned off on Monday.