Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones over UK wildfires

Many complained online that piercingly loud tone was ‘overreach’ while others lamented lack of action on decarbonisation On Friday at 7pm, Thérèse Coffey was nine miles away from a nuclear power station when her phone made a loud, piercing and very worrying sound: it was a “severe” emergency alert. “Was expecting [a] m

Panic as sirens blare from phones across England without warning amid 'severe' wildfire alert  GB News

NewsUK & World NewsIn The NewsLIVEUpdated just nowThe alert was issued by the UK GovernmentSevere alert issued by UK GovernmentAn emergency alert was sent to mobile phones across the UK at around 7pm this evening (Friday, August 14).The alert, which appeared in Welsh for some people, was issued by the UK Government and

Millions of people received a 'severe alert' from the government on Friday night