UK government alert (wild fire risk)!!!

[Electric_Andy]

We were on the train from Paddington to Plymouth, a whole carriage worth of phones went off. I thought it was the train alarm! Within 45 mins, I received 3 alerts, as did most other people. It was scary how many patches of charred field, scrubland, lay-byes etc I saw from the train.

 

[wbm5]

I hope it was a useful live test for the system. It was a bit of a surprise though

 

[MichaelW2]

Following the fire on Mousehold Heath, the National Fire Risk was raised to Pyjamas Purple, triggering the alert.
I had to cancel the gender-reveal fireworks cook out. Now we will never know.