ZAGREB, Dec 15, 2020 – Fires, flood and quake text warnings will go directly to mobile phones in danger areas, owing to a crisis management system, worth 48 million kuna, which will be procured by the ministry of the interior, the Vecernji List reported on Tuesday.
Thus, the citizens can expect to receive emergency alerts on their mobile phones in the event of fires, flooding, quakes, epidemic, migrant crisis, radiological and nuclear disaster, industrial and traffic accidents.
This will be one of the possibilities for early warning, the daily says.
The new system will facilitate the provision of timely information to citizens and participants in the civil protection system.
The information will be sent this way also to firefighting services, the HAK automobile club, public institutions, hotels, campsites, national parks and so on.
A deadline for putting the system in service is 1 September 2022, according to the daily.
