Government alert?!?!

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

Are they holding it in a hay field?

They might have a patio.

’How DARE they try to keep us all safe!’

Because we don't need them and it's just scaremongering drama for idiots.

I saw complete knobheads last week with a disposable bbq next to a sign that said no bbqs. Remember these alerts are for those people who think they’re entitled (like my neighbour who is using his hosepipe - he has no physical needs, he’s just a twat).

Next one will be for the rules of if it’s yellow let it mellow if it’s brown flush it down 🤣🤣🤣

@JohnBullshit Exactly the same. Phone in kitchen on charge - didn't make a peep. Possibly being lined up for some sort of natural selection programme...

Give them a chance.

They’re rolling it out FROM 7pm.

Better hope you don't get any major problems in your area, then.I know people who were saved from getting caught in floods by use of the alarms.

Not an abuse of power, just overkill, imo.

It really made me jump! The issue I have with it is that I pressed ok to switch it off as it was so loud, then the message disappeared before I could actually read it. So I was realy non the wiser what it was for until I came on here.

I have no issue with the alerts, the wild fires round here have been really bad. Six firemen were taken to hospital in Stoke on Trent today due to tackling wild fires.

Just got it again - they gonna do it every half an hour?

🤦‍♀️

Have those saying the alert was unnecessary actually read the fucking news lately??

Idiotic waste of money. Still at least it motivated me to find and turn off the functionality.

Why?

There's a BBQ festival going ahead near us tomorrow. 50-odd BBQ food trucks and specialist BBQs in a tinder dry park in the south east. Utterly insane.

I've had one before. In Manchester though.

My dh thought it was something I’d done 🙄

Ok. Burn then.

thank got you aren’t all overreacting

We have a massive fire a few miles away and just been camping where there was the day after we left a fire near by. I don’t need an alert to know how to be responsible and those who do won’t listen anyway.

We’re in Liverpool and mine was in Welsh too!

I got it, not long after I got a similar alert for wildfires back home (I'm visiting the UK right now).

It doesn't really work like that, sparks can travel further than you think in the wind.

Total fire bans in West Aus are pretty normal, there are also online maps where you can check how close they are to you.

Everyone just uses those flat top grills instead.

You can't even legally drive off-road in a TFB incase of sparks.

I forget the fine for breeching a ban but it's enormous, about $20k. They don't fuck around with fires.

The fire service is actually under a lot of staring recently, especially near us where there are a lot of fires. A number of teenagers have been arrested for the Stourbridge fires.

It's easy to moan about this stuff, but if you haven't got better answers, then maybe just stop whining about it.

(Though possibly a non-auditory option would be valuable - you can tell it wasn't a parent who decided the alarm time!)

Turned mine off during covid or something.