UK Issues Emergency Phone Alert as Heat Raises Wildfire Risk
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The UK pushing wildfire alerts directly to phones as drought and heat spike risk is another data point that climate volatility is now an operational variable, not background noise. If you have people, warehouses, or data centers in at-risk regions, treat public alert systems as inputs to your own incident playbooks, not the playbook itself.
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