“EXERCISE-EXERCISE-EXERCISE”. This is the alert message, to say the least explicit, that the inhabitants of the municipalities of Villers-le-Lac, Fournet-Blancheroche, Indevillers and Charquemont will receive this Friday from 8:30 a.m. The Doubs prefecture will organize, we You will have guessed, an exercise, as part of the Orsec (Civil Security Response Organization) plans. This will be linked to the industrial risk concerning the Châtelot dam, located on the French-Swiss border, in the municipalities of Villers-le-Lac and Les Planchettes.
No reaction expected from residents
“This civil security exercise will test the chain of command as well as the means of alerting and informing the population,” specifies the prefecture. “In this context, the FR-Alert system will be implemented. » This is a system for alerting populations present in a danger zone in real time. The signal, which residents will receive on their cell phones, will consist of a ringtone and notifications. No action or reaction will be expected from them. Moreover, there will be no human deployment on the ground either. “This will just be to test whether the message is well targeted,” reassures the prefecture.
Other municipalities may be targeted
The aim is to inform them about “the danger, the behaviors to adopt to protect themselves and, if necessary, the evolution of the situation”. Nearly 9,000 residents will be affected by this message. However, “this alert is likely to go beyond the target area, it is likely that residents of other surrounding municipalities will receive the message”, adds the prefecture, which “invites the local population to remain vigilant regarding possible false information which could circulate on social networks during this exercise.
