In Seattle, the city also imposed a blackout of all buildings and vehicles, and the owners who left the lights on in their buildings had their businesses smashed by a mob of 2,000 residents. Rumors spread of a Japanese aircraft carrier cruising off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area, resulting in the city of Oakland to close their schools and to issue a blackout civil defense sirens provided from Oakland Police Department (OPD) cars blared through the area, and radio silence was ordered. In Juneau, residents were told to cover their windows for the nightly blackout after rumors of Japanese submarines lurking by the southeast Alaskan coast. Anger and paranoia over the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Decemand the United States entry into World War II the next day intensified across the West Coast of the United States over the next few months.
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