The company whose software the state blamed for a malfunction that caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent statewide refutes claims its technology didn’t work.

Crisis24, the company that owns the software Maine uses to send emergency alerts through the Integrated Public Alert & Warning System — which is a national emergency alert system managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency — said it reviewed its technology and found no issues with it despite Maine emergency officials’ insistence that it failed.

“The software experienced no technical issues and performed as it was utilized,” the company said in a statement to the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday.

On Monday, Vanessa Sperrey, a spokesperson for the Maine Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the use of the emerge

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