A national telephone based fire warning system has been tested on 27th November in the Victorian coastal town, Torquay.The system is expected to be launched on next week to alert people during bushfire emergency. It can send thousands of text and voice messages to landlines and mobile phones based on the billing addresses within an identified area.

‘It is a system that will get a message out to people quickly and efficiently in life-threatening situations.’ said Premier John Brumby.

At present it can send messages to landlines and mobile phones within an identified area. That means it can not send messages to visitor’s mobile phones. The system can send 300 text messages per second and 1000 voice messages per minute. The warning will be issued only during life threatening situations at the command of a bushfire incident controller. The triple zero emergency number will be still available for calling police, fire service and ambulance. The Emergency alert system is operated by Telstra Corporation Limited.

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