Victims of domestic abuse could be at risk during this weekend’s emergency alert test across the UK, campaigners have warned. At 3pm on Sunday 7 September, the government will carry out a test of the system, causing phones on 4G and 5G networks to vibrate, emit a siren for up to 10 seconds and display…
The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear whether he saw an urgent warning from the National Weather Service that had triggered an emergency alert to phones in the area, a spokesman for camp’s operators said Wednesday. Richard “Dick” Eastland, the owner of…
An emergency alarm will ring out on people’s mobile phones across the country on one day in September as the government tests its emergency alert system. In its second ever nationwide drill, the alert system will be tested at around 3pm on 7 September this year – with approximately 87 million devices vibrating and ringing…
A 10-second ‘Armageddon alert’ siren will sound on millions of UK mobile phones later this year as part of a test of the government’s emergency alert system. The emergency alert is used to warn if there is a danger to life nearby, in instances like extreme weather. The alert has been scheduled to take place…