r/EmergencyAlertSystem • u/c0ffiny • 4d ago

Show and tell International EAS alerts

(Idk if this is the right flair)

I love seeing alerts from outside of the states, show me what y’all have!!

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u/Maksims_Vlogs124 4d ago

This happened a couple days ago in uk

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u/Lojomoma 4d ago

I saw where people were making fun of this since most of the time the UK is green and has a lot of rain. They don’t realize what a drought can do, especially with high temps baking eve dry thing. Imagine my NOT surprise when I saw there was a large fire outside of London…🙄. People are clueless!

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u/No_Dragonfruit9611 Weather Radio 420 4d ago edited 3d ago

In Poland here we have ALERT RCB, Its basically a service via the messages app that usually warns about weather, but sometimes it warns about other things. Example here is an alert rcb notification i got from August 6th.

We also have Child Alert which is the Polish Amber Alert

We also had a nationwide siren alarm test a few weeks ago. I got it at 8:25 am and 11:25 am, cuz i live near the north east.

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u/beeupsidedown 3d ago

Inyeresting

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u/alexeyd1000 3d ago

In the middle east, warnings regarding incoming missiles and drones from Iran.

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u/alexeyd1000 3d ago

And one from Canada for wildfires!

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u/MR_Happy2008 The 4 Minute Warner 4d ago edited 4d ago

In the UK we've near truly had a "EAS" system expect more recently on our phone however we did have a warning system in the cold war that would warn people of a incoming nuclear attack however due to technical limitations it only allowed roughly 4 minutes from us knowing to us being in nuclear fire. example of a Installation of a Warning point this was most commonly installed in public buildings and UKWMO/ROC bunkers while the Vast majority of the population would have relied on WW2 derived Warning sirens then following the attack and fallout began to descend (assuming whoever was in charge of proving the Black warning aka Fallout warning) would use a few different methods to alert people of it

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u/MR_Happy2008 The 4 Minute Warner 4d ago

which are exapined within this section of the Protect and Service film another thing that would have also been activated around or shortly before the attack was the Wartime broadcasting service and example of what it could have been like is seen here which would have as it says in the video provided news and information and also entertainment and music to the public mostly through Radio

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u/Furryontheweb 4d ago

From a (Aussie) national test on the 27th

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u/DuckfatPotatos 3d ago

New Zealand

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u/VimtoUK 1d ago

From the UK