New Brunswick to conduct Alert Ready test on Wednesday

A person uses a cell phone in Ottawa on Monday, July 18, 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

The Government of New Brunswick is advising the public Alert Ready, the National Public Alerting System, will be tested next week.

The test will be done Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 10:55 a.m.

The test will take place on television, radio and wireless devices.

“Following an audible alarm, the following information will be presented by television on a red background or broadcast by radio in a bilingual message: ‘This is a test of the National Public Alerting System by the Government of Canada. No action is required. If this was an actual emergency, you would now have instructions for protecting yourself and your family. For more information please visit the Alert Ready website,’” a release from the provincial government said.

Wireless devices that are compatible with the alert system will vibrate and the alert sound will play along with the same message in text in both English and French.

Alert Ready was developed in partnership with federal, provincial and territorial emergency management officials, Environment and Climate Change Canada and the broadcast industry.

The Alert Ready test is done to help improve emergency preparedness and responses in times of crisis.

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