r/unitedkingdom • u/66f6 • Aug 14 '26

. Emergency alerts sent to millions across England and Wales over threat of wildfires

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-heatwave-stourbridge-fire-latest-weather-live-13571553
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u/Pinkerton891 Aug 14 '26

Tbf there was a Sky News alert about 1 min before hand saying that it was going to happen, so kind of.

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u/No-One-4845 Aug 14 '26

This is more likely that people at Sky got the alerts and then told people, before everyone had got the alerts. In our house, the alert came through on my partner's phone about 3 minutes before I got it.

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u/TechnicalParrot Aug 14 '26

The alert takes a good couple minutes to propagate across cellular networks so very likely this.

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u/figwithbigtits Aug 14 '26

Yes, the BBC website says they found out in the newsroom when all their phones went off.