A total of 16 municipalities of the regions of Barcelona, Baix Llobregat and Vallès Occidentalin which half a million people live, test this Wednesday their 40 chemical hazard sirens and sending messages to the population via mobile phone this Wednesday, November 15.
As reported Civil protection of the Generalitat, the simulacrumwhich of the three that will have been carried out this year in Catalonia is the one that will affect the highest number of citizens (the census population of the area is 422,681 people), will begin at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow and will last about 15 minutes.
The drill will be carried out in the municipalities of the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Abrera, Castellbisbal, Esparreguera, Martorell, Olesa de Montserrat, Sant Andreu de la Barca, Sant Joan Despí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló, Terrassa, Viladecans and Cornellà, l’Hospitalet, el Prat, Sant Boi and Sant Feliu de Llobregatin addition to the Free Zone of the Catalan capital.
Although the test does not require that people who hear the sirens and receive the alert messages on their mobile phones confine themselves, Civil Protection encourages them to follow self-protection advice in the event of a chemical accident.
How will the drill go?
Of the 40 sirens, seven are new and will sound for the first time in El Prat, Castellbisbal, Martorell and Esparreguera. In some municipalities, the sirens are located in specific areas and neighborhoods that will make them not audible to the entire population. In Barcelona they are in the Free Trade Zone and in the Port; in Hospitalet they are located in the Centro, Can Serra, Sant Feliu and Bellvitge neighborhoods; In Cornellà they are in the center, in the Riera neighborhood and in Almeda, and in Esparreguera it is located in the Can Vinyals urbanization.
At the beginning of the test, the Civil Protection alert will be sent to mobile phones informing of the completion of the test, and after a few minutes the chemical risk sirens will be activated with the sound of confinement (waving sound like that of a siren). ambulance). The alert start sound (confinement sound) is three one-minute long signals separated by five-second silences.
At the end of the test (after fifteen minutes), the chemical risk sirens will be activated with the end of confinement sound (a higher-pitched flat sound).
40 schools They have confirmed that they will carry out the drill to prepare and also raise awareness among the students. In total, it is estimated that 16,663 people, including students, teaching and work staff at the centers, will practice confinement.
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This is the last siren test that will be carried out this year, after those carried out in Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l’Ebre (September 20), and in several municipalities of Aran, Bages, Berguedà, La Selva , Vallès Oriental and in the eastern sector of Vallès Occidental (October 18).
Civil Protection of the Generalitat has created a survey to assess the hearing of the sirens and whether the alert has been received on the mobile phone in the areas affected by the test. This survey can be answered through any mobile phone, it is anonymous and does not collect personal data, but it allows you to know if the sirens have been heard and where they have been heard from.