Sirens also wailed in the Starnberg district on Thursday

Created: 07/12/2022, 17:00

By: Peter Schiebel

The siren on the roof of the town hall in Herrsching should also howl on the nationwide warning day next Thursday at 11 a.m.

© Andrea Jaksch

The nationwide warning day will take place again on Thursday, December 8th.

This year, warnings will also be sent to smartphones for the first time.

District

- They still exist, the good old sirens on fire stations or other public buildings - although not as many as before.

They should howl when the second nationwide warning day takes place next Thursday, December 8, at 11 a.m. sharp.

The federal, state and local governments are testing various warning devices such as radio, warning apps and individual sirens, which can be used to alert the population in an emergency.

For the first time this year, a sample warning message will also be sent via "Cell Broadcast".

This is an automatic warning message that should reach around half of all mobile devices in Germany directly.

"The test alarm is an important building block to ensure the population warning," explains District Administrator Stefan Frey.

“On the one hand, to test the functionality of the sirens.

But it is much more important that people recognize this one-minute, rising and falling howling sound as a warning signal for the population and know what to do then.

But the other warning channels via mobile phones are more important than ever," explains the district administrator.

The district office explains how the district of Starnberg takes part.

siren systems

Not all sirens are technically equipped for this special warning tone.

The city of Starnberg is participating with one siren each in the districts of Hadorf and Leutstetten.

The municipality of Herrsching is there with three sirens in Herrsching (old school, town hall, Kurparkschlösschen).

In the municipality of Gauting, two sirens are to be heard in Gauting (town hall, mobile system on Frühlingstraße) and one each in the districts of Stockdorf, Buchendorf, Unterbrunn, Oberbrunn and Hausen.

A rising and falling howling tone lasting one minute is tested.

"In the event of serious dangers to public safety, such as natural hazards, pollutant emissions or similar, the howling tone is intended to prompt the population to switch on their radios, call up messages from the Nina warning app and possibly listen to loudspeaker announcements from the local emergency services," explains district office spokesman Stefan Diebl.

Stefan Frey adds: "It is important to know the difference to the three-times wailing warning tone, each with a short pause, which is only intended to alert," says Frey.

warning apps

On this day, the federal government also sends a warning text to the various warning apps that anyone can download onto their smartphone free of charge, for example Nina.

"cell broadcast"

For the first time on Thursday, the warning path via "Cell Broadcast" will also be tested.

"Cell broadcast is a warning message that is sent directly to the cell phone," explains the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance on its website.

"We can't reach more people with any other warning device."

"The transmission of warning messages via cell broadcast is an anonymous method that uses the reception readiness of the mobile device in a radio cell of the mobile network," explains Stefan Diebl.

"In this way, mobile devices located in a potentially dangerous area can be notified with a warning message

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No app is required on the mobile device for this.

However, in order for the mobile phone to be able to receive "Cell Broadcast" messages, it needs the latest updates.

Otherwise it doesn't work.

The Federal Office therefore recommends checking whether the latest updates have been installed.

And: "In order for you to receive the message, your cell phone must be switched on on December 8, 2022 and must not be in flight mode." More information on this and generally on the warning day can be found on the website www.bbk.bund.de and on the website of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior at www.innenministerium.bayern.de.

There were technical problems on the first nationwide warning day in September 2020 because the warning apps had triggered too late due to computer problems.

The warning day was canceled last year.

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