South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 2 hrs ago
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Hong Kong cuts emergency mobile alert activation time from an hour to 15 minutes
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Hong Kong has reduced the time to send emergency mobile alerts from one hour to 15 minutes under a new HK$150 million system that allows messages to be tailored to specific districts, following lessons from the Wang Fuk Court fire in April.
Hong Kong cuts emergency mobile alert activation time from an hour to 15 minutes
Hong Kong authorities have slashed the time needed to send emergency mobile alerts to residents from an hour to 15 minutes under a HK$150 million (US$19 million) system, while messages can now be tailored to specific districts, the security chief has revealed.
A hearing session into the deadly Wang Fuk Court fire in April had exposed the lengthy time needed to trigger the alert. But security chief Chris Tang Ping-keung on Saturday stopped short of specifying the types of incidents, such as major
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