Anyone with a mobile phone could receive the alert
British holidaymakers heading to Tenerife for October half term are warned about an emergency government alert set to be issued next week. The Canary Islands government is due to test an emergency warning system on Thursday, October 24.
It means that anyone with a mobile phone, including tourists, should receive an emergency alert message. The alert will be issued between 10am and midday local time. The system, called ES-Alert, has previously been tested in other Canary Islands, including Gran Canaria and Lanzarote. It’s designed to alert people of national disasters such as fires, floods or volcanic eruptions and has previously been used during forest fires in La Palma and Tenerife last year.Most mobile phones with a data connection will have the ability to receive the civil protection alert, with devices operating Android version 11 or higher, or iOS version 15.
Those whose phones are not configured in Spanish will receive the alert in English. If your phone is switched off or in airplane mode you will not receive the alert. The Canary Islands tourism board is warning those in the industry to make travellers aware of the message to not cause any concern among travellers. In a statement on social media site X, Turismo de Islas Canarias said: “On October 24, the ES-ALERT system for emergencies will be tested. Between 10am and midday, mobile phones in the area will receive an alert that will stop ringing by pressing ACCEPT.
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