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Appears the emergency alert system has been used for the first time outside of a test! ๐
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It doesn't sound much an emergency, when you can corden off the area and know what time and place it will happen
Seems to meet the definition of an emergency to me!
They've got a whole city to alert, to protect their lives, in a dynamic situation occurring in real time. Whilst they provided 2 hours notice, they were transporting the explosive shortly before travel peak time.
Other methods of media communication couldn't reliably ensure the vast majority of the public received the notification in time. Especially when most people would be working, and often don't have access to those methods until they finish or are on break.
Was an appropriate use of the emergency alert system.
Agreed. This was a textbook case on the situations that it should be used. When you need to inform a large amount of people of a situation in a short amount of time.
If people don't leave the cordoned area it becomes an emergency pretty quickly.
On finding a newly disturbed bomb is it should be treated as if it may go off at any time. It's already an emergency.
We've got pretty good at not settling these off, especially as the age of the detonators helps, but that bomb is not safe.