What was the police response to the panic caused by the radio version of the war of the worlds?

THE POLICE SENT OUT NOTICES TELLING EVERYONE THAT THE PROGRAM WAS A DRAMATIZATION.
The radio version of the war of the world was a radio drama that was staged by Orson Welles on Sunday evening of October 30,1938. Many people listen to radio programs on Sunday evening, been a day of rest. When the play began, many people missed the beginning of the play because they were listening to another radio station, so by the time they tuned to the station where the drama was taking place, the drama was already in the middle and the presentation of the play was done in such a way that it looks like an event that was presently happening. People were thrown into great panic when they hear about the aliens that were invading the earth, many people rushed out of their houses and went to police stations to notify them and to beg for their gas masks to prevent them inhaling the poisonous gases released by the aliens.