Civil security exercises are carried out regularly all year round under the authority of the Rhône prefecture without the population necessarily always being informed.
This will be the case north of Lyon this Thursday December 12 from 9 a.m., where a civil security exercise will be carried out on the Univar site at Genay. The manufacturer's factory chemicals is classified as high threshold Sevesothe highest level of danger there is.
Also if your phone starts making a shrill sound beep sound accompanied by a alert notificationno need to panic.
The FR-Alert system activated in 17 municipalities in Rhône and Ain
This is a test as part of the national FR-Alert systemwhose objective is towarn the population in the event of an emergency (floods, fires, nuclear power plant accidents, for example) to protect them from danger.
The inhabitants of Genay will receive this alert just like those of 16 other municipalities of the departments of Rhône and Ain, in addition to users of theA46 motorway.
In the Rhônethe alert notification will concern the following municipalities:
- Albigny-sur-Saône
- Chasselay
- Couzon-au-Mont-d’Or
- Curis-au-Mont-d’Or
- Villefranche-sur-Saône
- The Dear
- Montanay
- Neuville-sur-Saône
- Poleymieux-au-Mont-d’Or
- Quincieux
- Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d’Or.
In theAinCivrieux, Massieux, Parcieux, Reyrieux and Trévoux are affected.
As this is an exercise, this will be specified in the title of the notification. The office of the prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region indicates in a press release that “people who receive the alert notification, accompanied by a specific sound signal, will not have to take any action or take any particular sheltering behavior.”
Note that thecellular broadcast alert and information system is triggered even if the phone is in silent mode.
