It was used for the very first time in Eure-et-Loir, this Thursday, November 21, 2024. Following the decision of Hervé Jonathan, prefect of Eure-et-Loir, state services triggered the system France Alert.
From 6 a.m., all residents of the department received an SMS from the FR-ALERT sender, or a notification directly on their phone without going through any application. In this message, the Eure-et-Loir prefecture warned of snowfall and gave some precautionary advice.
“We sent two separate messages, one specific for the Perche sector and another for the rest of the department,” we told the prefecture.
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Difficulties on the SFR network
State services do not have access to residents' telephone numbers.
The prefecture defines a time frame and a geographic area for the message, which are entered into the France Alert application. Then, it is the telephone operators who relay for all the telephones located in the department. For this first, there were some difficulties concerning SFR subscribers, not all of whom received the alert.
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Claire Béguin
France
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