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Emergency Alert About Wildfires
(thelemmy.club)
Nearly jumped out my skin a few minutes ago when sirens started blaring. The emergency alert system just triggered, with this generic message about wildfires.
Not any actual impending ones about to burn my house down. Just the general possibility. Because of a heatwave nobody has apparently noticed.
Thought the bomb was about to drop for a second. Has nobody in our government heard the story about the boy who cried wolf?
Sorry if this is venting but this rather caught me by surprise.
Most places that do ban fires here just ban them all year round. Never seen them compare different types of fire either, its always any flame is banned if they do. As if a camp fire and camping stove are the same risk...
Obviously with how dry things are in a lot of places right now I get banning all fires. But in January after a week of endless rain the same signs are there.