The Ministry of the Inside, by way of the Normal Directorate of Civil Safety and Emergencies, is finishing up checks to confirm the operation of the ES-Alert protocol, a part of which is a system which sends alerts to cellphones within the occasion of emergencies or imminent catastrophes. It’s a system also referred to as reverse 112.
A calendar of checks has been deliberate within the totally different Autonomous Communities. The emergency response centres, in coordination with the Nationwide Emergency Monitoring and Coordination Centre of the Ministry of the Inside, will ship simulated messages warning of a civil safety threat and a beep, accompanied by vibration, to cellphones.
This alert is a check and is not any trigger for panic. For the Valencia area, the date of the check is 27 October, and in Murcia it would happen on 2 November.
The complete schedule of checks is:
- October 24: Cantabria, Andalusia and Asturias.
- October 27: Extremadura, Valencian Group and Galicia.
- November 2: Murcia, Balearic Islands, Madrid, Aragon, Navarra and Catalonia.
- November 10: Basque Nation, Castilla y León, Canary Islands and Ceuta
- November 16: Castilla-La Mancha, La Rioja and Melilla.
The ES-Alert system was deployed on June 21, and is the results of collaboration between the Ministries of the Inside and of Financial Affairs and Digital Transformation, having been financed with restoration and resilience funds.
This know-how, which is made obtainable to state and regional civil safety authorities, provides a brand new alert device to the inhabitants that the Nationwide Civil Safety System already has.
