Anyone in theOisethis Tuesday, May 13 at 4 p.m., should receive this alert message. But no real dangerit will only be a question of tester the alert device To measure its effectiveness.
A life -size exercise on May 13
FR-ALERT, this is the name of this state services system that will be triggered for life-size exercise on Tuesday, May 13. This is a population alert system that allows you to send notifications to mobile phones. Thanks to geolocation, these alerts can be sent to people in a specific geographical area to alert them from an imminent danger or a particular threat. This alert will also allow the State services to pass the instructions and in particular the gestures to be adopted to guard against dangers or to reduce exposure to a particular threat as much as possible.
Notifications on phones
Notifications may transmit information on:
- the nature of the risk (a fire, a flood, an industrial accident, etc.);
- the authority that disseminates the alert;
- the location of the danger (establishment, district, commune, agglomeration, department, etc.);
- the attitude to adopt (stay at home, evacuate the area …);
- If necessary a link to obtain additional information on an official website.
Prevent natural events, biological, health, technological or public security risk
After a first alert, other notifications may be sent to follow the evolution of the situation or to indicate the lifting of the alert.
This device can be started for events:
- Natural: flood, storm, fire, …
- Biological and chemical: pollution, gas leak, nuclear incident …
- Sanitarians: epidemic, pandemic, agro-food incident …
- Technological and industrial: serious accidents on road, rail or air, industrial incident, etc.
- or serious public security, such as terrorist acts.
No app to download
On its website, the prefecture of Oise recalls that there is no need to download any application to receive these alerts, regardless of the mobile phone used.
These alert notifications are scheduled to be sent at the same time on all mobile phones. They are displayed on the phone screen, even if it is locked. The message can be accompanied by a sound alert as well as a vibration to assert its critical character.
Be careful however, users who have turned off their phone or put in plane mode will not receive the notification.
