Overview
- The mass phone alert sounded at 10:14 local time from Sanlúcar de Barrameda to San Roque, triggering evacuations and field exercises across the bay.
- About 20,000 people participated, including roughly 1,000 police, military, medical and civil-protection personnel supported by ambulances, boats and drones.
- Five operational sites tested core tasks: evacuations around Plaza de San Antonio, protection of works at the Museo de Cádiz, rescues at Santa María del Mar, damage assessment in the Zona Franca and UME-led searches in El Puerto de Santa María.
- Authorities aimed to clear risk zones within about an hour, reflecting the estimated window between the warning and a first wave in the modeled event.
- Communications checks spanned ES-Alert plus loudspeakers and bells, and included Pemea-enabled chat to 112 for accessibility, with media noting earlier discrepancies over the expected alert time.