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I read on bz-berlin.de that in an actual emergency they will have vans driving around with sirens. So my question is, why didn't they have vans driving around yesterday if it was a test?

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Very good question. I also read about another city (can’t remember which) that could have used the sirens, but didn’t, because the test happens already on other dates.

I really expected much more from this test. Feels like we are living in an underdeveloped country.

> Feels like we are living in an underdeveloped country.

To be fair, this is pretty much the definition of 1st world problems.

They do, also for stuff like contaminated tap water. Kind of looks like the scene from Chernobyl, vans with sirens and speakers driving around town announcing stuff. But it works.

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