Today the National Crisis Center tested the BE-Alert alarm system. A record number of more than 3.5 million text messages were sent throughout Wallonia. This is reported by the National Crisis Center today.
The test served to test the capacity and speed of the system and was BE-Alert’s largest test to date. The test was location based so everyone who was in Wallonia at the time of the test received such a message. You did not have to be registered on the BE-Alert system for this.
“2022 is all about updating crisis management. This test is part of that. In the event of a crisis, whatever the cause of that crisis, people are dependent on fast and reliable information from the government,” says the minister of Home Affairs Annelies Verlinden (CD&V).
The West Flemish municipality of Zwevegem has also carried out such a location-based test. This was mainly aimed at practicing internal procedures.
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