More than 20,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan, residents received a telephone call around midnight alerting them that a man with Alzheimer's disease had wandered off.
More than 20,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan 
“Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation).
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , residents received a
telephone call around midnight alerting them that a man with
Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. had wandered off. The calls came from an
automated au·to·mate
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates
v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.
2. system the city has adopted to alert citizens to emergencies.
Officials are blaming an employee who didn't know how to limit the
area to which the calls were made.
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