The outdoor alarm consists of seven-second blasts of sound with fourteen seconds of silence between them.
If the alarm sounds you should:
- Stay indoors
- Close doors, windows, and ventilation
- Listen to your local radio station, read Text TV or websites
A long signal means the danger is past
To know when the danger is past, you should follow the course of the event via the media. Also listen for the ‘danger past’ signal, which consists of a 30-40-second long signal.
For more information:
- Visit your municipality’s website for information from local rescue services;
- Visit your county administrative board’s website;
- Read the Swedish Police website. Choose a county for local information;
- Read the Krisinformation.se website, a portal that links to other authorities that could have information on the crisis;
- Call the police on 114 14 to notify about missing or injured family.
In an event that requires registration of the dead or injured, a special public telephone number will, as a rule, be set up for inquiries about persons and property.
Call 112 in an emergency
Always call 112 in an emergency. Call the police on 114 14 if you want to report a crime, leave a tip, or ask a question that you couldn’t get answered, for instance through the website.