Government alert?!?!

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Omg? First use of the government phone alerts, i think??

"but I planned sky lanterns for my wedding!!!!"

"But we always have a BBQ on my birthday"

"But why shouldnt I have fireworks at my gender reveal?!"

Well if people continue to be utter morons why not?

And if you only send them to places currently affected by wildfires, then that is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

I admit when it arrived my first thought was to look out of the window to see if there was smoke!

Seriously I can't understand why people are saying to turn them off. What if there is an actual real emergency near you, wouldn't you want to know?

And you think that message will stop them?

I jumped out of my skin!!! Now I can hear sirens everywhere. Im in Somerset near woods.

I think fire brigades have been called out a lot this week for idiots trying to bbq in parks etc. A few people just won't be aware and this might stop and make them think.

It may well save some time and resources. The fire brigade are needed for actual fires especially crop fires at the mo.

We are not used to wild fires in this country but on the cobs tinent many people lose their lives each year and some are started by silly things like bbq on dry grass.

Same here!
I honestly thought of incoming nukes 😲

I'm in central London. Got it here. No wildfires and I'm not using a disposable BBQ

I did some surveys that asked about the sound and content of these messages and it's nowhere near as harsh as they were planning.

It was odd though.

😄

Andy Burnham saw what you were making and thought 'nahhh'

Blimey you lot startle easily!

I didn't get it

I live in London and this was my first thought 🤣😩 mine vanished as I clicked before I could read it and then heard my teens phone go off and I was like shouting what does it what does it say thinking I was about to have to prepare for my life 🤣😭😭

I’m sure we’ve had a few for heavy rain or stupidly strong wind (Bath).

It is.

They’ve been dealing with the biggest wildfire around the cairngorms in years since mid July

As a warning of danger, it's completely fucking pointless if you have to waste time asking chat gpt to translate it. Wales has two languages and alert should be sent out in both simultaneously. And if that's not possible, in English first because the majority (including tourists) will be able to understand it, even if their first language is Welsh.

In fairness, a few days ago there was a thread asking whether people were obeying the hosepipe restrictions and lots of people said no, they were still using a hose. I’m a bit salty about that because we are about to go into the next level of water restrictions (no car washing, no window cleaning, no watering cans to be used).

Nope. None here in Edinburgh.

It tells you a lot about the mentality of some of our countrymen that we need to be reminded not to set the world on fire.

My adult daughter and son plus grandchildren received the alert. I only know as they phoned me to check if I had.
l am disabled and on every priority list. No alert. They thankfully live nearby.
I’m obviously expendable.

Nearly gave me a heart attack.

Didn't get it in my part of Scotland

Be grateful you don’t live in Cardiff which is 90% English speaking but the Welsh Government decided to send the alert in Welsh 🙄 Has no idea what we were being alerted about!

Outrageous abuse of power by the government. Be aware of the risk of wildfires is not an emergency announcement.

The twats setting off fireworks nightly here and bbqing in the lay-by sucking on their nos bottles will give zero fucks about this alert. Because they do it every single night.

We know where the hydrant is, we know how to use it. We all locals have our hoses ready to go this alert will do fuck all for us.