{"id":71617,"date":"2023-04-23T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/emergency-alert-test-at-3pm-today-23-april\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T09:54:00","slug":"emergency-alert-test-at-3pm-today-23-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/emergency-alert-test-at-3pm-today-23-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Alert test at 3pm today (23 April)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong>There will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alerts service today at 3pm (Sunday 23 April 2023).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency Alerts is a UK government service that will warn the public if there is a danger to life nearby, such as an extreme weather event. In an emergency, mobile phones will receive an alert with advice about how to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>Your mobile phone (or tablet) could:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 make a loud siren-like sound<br \/>\n\u2022 vibrate<br \/>\n\u2022 read out the alert<\/p>\n<p>The message will be received on 4G and 5G mobile phones even if devices are on \u2018silent\u2019. The sound and vibration will last for about 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The test time of 3pm was selected to cause minimal disruption to society, and it avoids the most regular church worship times. However, any churches with services arranged for the afternoon, or have events taking place in church buildings at that time, should prepare for a brief spell of interruption at 3pm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Further details about today\u2019s Emergency Alert can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-emergency-alerts-test-keep-calm-and-carry-on-this-is-just-a-test\">here<\/a> while guidance for vulnerable groups can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/one-week-to-go-until-uk-emergency-alerts-test\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alerts service today at 3pm (Sunday 23 April 2023). Emergency Alerts is a UK government service that will warn the public if there is a danger to life nearby, such as an extreme weather event. In an emergency, mobile phones will receive an alert with [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}