Like every first Wednesday of February, today at 13:30 7200 sirens will sound in unison to test the general alert system of Switzerland. This is a check to ensure they would work to alert the population in case of bombardment or nuclear attack on Swiss soil.

5 comments

1. Let’s hope they do better than Germany. In Germany it was such a debacle the last time, they decided to “postpone” it the next year, because they didn’t do jack shit to fix it.

2. Only once a year ? We do it every month.

3. They speak normal German on Swiss TV?

4. Should have read this earlier…

   Living right across the street, I almost fell off the couch at 13:30…

   But yeah, thanks for posting this 🙂

5. Once a year? In Finland we test the alerts every month on Mondays at noon. Used to be every week.