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The UK government may have surprised a few people just after 7pm tonight after using the Emergency Alerts service via mobile network operators to send out a national warning about the “very high risk of wildfires nationally“, which advises people across the country to avoid undertaking any activity that could start a fire.
Generally speaking the advice in the alert is somewhat common sense and there may well be some debate about whether the current circumstances justified sending one. You can see a Summary of Past Emergency Alerts on the government’s official website.
Recipients (most of us) of the message will typically experience 10 seconds of a loud siren sound blaring out at you while your phone vibrates and displays the message, unless you press OK to stop it sooner. In this case most of those we spoke to received the latest message twice in fairly quick succession.