It is Actu Nice which notes this information, on this first day of the year 2025.
While usually, every first Wednesday of the monththe sirens of the alert system resonate at midday in Nice and in other municipalities in the Alpes-Maritimes this Wednesday January 1st, no sound will be heard.
You should know that if the 47 sirens of the Population Alert and Information System (SAIP) are activated every first Wednesday of the month in the department, this ritual aims above all to check their proper functioning.
Wednesday January 8 at 12:15 p.m.
At noon sharp, during one minute and 41 seconds, the famous signal, to which the population is accustomed, is broadcast. An “almost” immutable tradition.
Because on this January 1st, therefore a public holidaythe Alpes-Maritimes prefecture has decided that the monthly test will exceptionally be postponed until Wednesday January 8, 2025 at 12:15 p.m., as indicated in a press release.
A way of respecting the particular character of this National Day, where a large part of the population does not work.
