Warning day
At 11 a.m. it should flash and beep on all channels
The various channels through which warnings are sent today include warning apps such as Nina or Katwarn, messages on radio and television, sirens, information boards in cities and warnings on platforms and on Deutsche Bahn trains. photo
© Patrick Pleul/dpa
How do you reach as many people as possible in the event of a disaster? The authorities are testing this – including at today’s nationwide warning day.
If it’s flashing, shrilling or glowing in many places in Germany this Thursday at 11 a.m., there’s no reason to get excited. Because at the nationwide On the warning day, only a test alarm is triggered. The aim is to test how the population can be warned comprehensively in the event of disasters or the consequences of war. The all-clear should then be given at around 11.45 a.m. This time it should work even better than the last test alarm last December. At that time, more than 90 percent of the population had been reached.
The starting signal is given by the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief (BBK). The various channels through which the warning is then sent include warning apps such as Nina or Katwarn, messages on radio and television, sirens, information boards in cities and warnings on the platforms and on Deutsche Bahn trains.
The so-called Cell Broadcast System also sends an automatic notification to every cell phone that is switched on, has reception and is running current software at the time. The Cell Broadcast System with automatic notifications to cell phones was used for the first time on Warning Day 2022.