No Mobile Warnings for Travelers

For travelers through bushfire zones in Australia there is no mobile phone warning system at present. The newly introduced emergency phone warning system only caters to the people who have a land line or a mobile phone with correct billing address. The people who visit bushfire prone places outside of their billing address do not get this warning. The authorities are therefore looking for a system that deliver mobile phone messages based on the physical location of the handset at the time of an emergency. Premier John Brumby and Emergency Services Commissioner Bruce Esplin hoped this second phase of emergency warning system would be implemented early this year. The new telephone warning system called the Emergency Alert has been used to issue warnings in 18 emergencies across Australia in this summer with more than 51,000 messages sent.

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