Electric power station in Valais; mountain dams feed the Swiss energy system
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland will be testing its alarms, all 8,200 of them, throughout the country Wednesday 1 February, from 13:30 to 15:00.
The initial test consists of all the national alarms going off for a minutes at 13:30.
These may be tested again until 14:00 if there is a need. After 14:00 alarms are tested in areas below all of Switzerland’s dams.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 1 February 2012.
Tags: alarms, national, population alerts, sounding off, Switzerland, tests
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