EMERGENCY ALERT
An emergency alert was sent to all mobile phones this evening in England & Wales from the Government with wildfire warning after UK blazes.
The siren on my phone was very loud and made me jump.
Anyone else had this?
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I didn’t 🤣 I have it disabled on my phone
No Siren for me
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It was a horrible noise and I wasn't expecting it! I will have to disable them.
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I wasn't expecting it either. It was a bit of a shock.
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i disabled alerts
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Me too.
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Yes I. Had 4.it scared me half to death
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Could barely hear mine and it was in my jeans pocket at the time. Must still be linked to volume on each phone unless denim is a better sound insulator than I thought.
I think it is a good idea if it stops people carelessly lighting fires or dropping cigarette buts. Where I live all the grass has been cut really short because it was all dead and dried out and just waiting for a single spark to set the whole lot ablaze!
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when they did the test the other year, I bounced through the roof, had to take diazepam. Since then I’ve just silenced them for the good.
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I feel that it’s such a shame that there is no option to receive the alert without the noise. I would like to get the alerts but can’t cope with the noise
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I think it was really stupid for the government to issue an alert like that over something that may or may not happen.
These alerts should only be used if immediate life is at risk in your area. I feel like they have shot themselves in the foot because so many now will turn them off or disable them, while if anything serious does happen in the future most people will be none the wiser.
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Just walked into M&S and the phone went off, people looked and the theirs went off.
The government using an emergency system to point out the obvious, what will they think of next?
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I think most of the fires is arson
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Mine come through in Welsh first (I can't speak Welsh) and I didn't get the English version until about 25 minutes later!! Good job it wasn't an immediate threat 😅
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I don't think most of it is arson at all. But you're right, deliberate arsonists wouldn't take any notice of the warnings. Not much we can do about those unfortunately.
I wouldn't wish overthinking on anyone, but there are also a lot of underthinkers! I'm often surprised by how people just don't foresee the consequences of their actions until it's too late. Those are the people who might consider not lighting a disposable barbecue on a pile of dead grass surrounded by heathland…
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Crying wolf? I turned off that alert and kept the more critical one though if there's ever a real emergency, I'll hear my neighbours' shouts and screams well enough without it.
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I agree with this. I was quite upset to see it. Perhaps they're not showing the actual scale of issues with these wildfires but it didn't feel worth using the alert system for this and will have caused a lot of panic.
I haven't turned it off but if they use them again for things like this, I certainly will be.
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Yes I agree with this. My phone is permanently on silent and only vibrates for notifications which is more than enough. The noise really isn't necessary.
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I didn't realise there were different levels. I'll be looking at that too.
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I have them all turned off, I can't handle the noise especially unexpectedly
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This made me jump so badly! I panicked and closed the notification before I could read what it was about. So probably not the most effective way to contact me in an emergency if it was something that needed any action!
I agree that the noise wasn't necessary for the message that they were sending. If it was something where you needed to take shelter immediately, then maybe that would be useful. But much as the wildfires are a very important issue, this message could have been delivered in a different way in my opinion.
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