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Belgium's emergency alert system, BE-Alert, has been put to the test and will be improved over the coming weeks to ensure that emergency messages get out to the public as quickly and reliably as p
The efficiency of the federal emergency alert system BE-Alert was called into question at the weekend after a fire broke out in a container full of lithium batteries in Drogenbos, on the border of
Only 260 of the 589 municipalities in Belgium have so far joined the Be-Alert platform, which allows for the sending of messages to the public in case of emergency, writes Le Soir
Belgium's federal crisis centre in 2017 will launch a text messaging system to warn people in the case of a terror attack or natural disaster, writes Het Laatste Nieuws.
Wishing others a happy New Year by text message appears to be heading the way of the DoDo bird.
