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Emergency water alarm sirens fail in annual test run

This content was published on Feb 8, 2018 On the first Wednesday of every February, Switzerland reverberates to the sound of close to 8,000 sirens, as the country carries out its annual test of the devices. Introduced during wartime, they are now used to alert the population to impending catastrophes or water dangers such as flooding.  At 13:30 sirens across the country sounded the…