Warning messages sounded on cellphones and alarms blared across Germany as part of a nationwide test of the emergency alert system Thursday, but in Berlin the sirens stayed quiet.
Warning messages sounded on cellphones and alarms blared across Germany as part of a nationwide test of the emergency alert system Thursday, but in Berlin the sirens stayed quiet. The latest “warning day” was conducted after an embarrassing flop in 2020, when the country held its first such test in 30 years and many civil defense sirens around Germany didn't go off. The head of Germany’s Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, which was in charge of organizing the test alerts, was fired.