Alberta Emergency Alert webpage goes down amid wildfire evacuations | 24CA News
After two days of pushing out alerts for evacuation notices and orders in response to greater than 100 wildfires within the province, the Alberta Emergency Alert webpage went down on Friday night time.
Users on social media seen the web site outage at round 8:30 p.m., shortly after the province issued an evacuation alert for Strathcona County, east of Edmonton.
Some web site customers confirmed a Cloudflare error, whereas others had been proven a “Http 1.1 service unavailable” error.
The emergency alert webpage confirmed 36 totally different crucial and advisory alerts earlier than taking place.
“It is reasonable to assume that the RFP to create an emergency alerts website would include a requirement for both availability and scalability to cope with sudden increases in traffic. In this era of cloud computing, it is not difficult to achieve those requirements,” Twitter consumer @MartinGrasdal wrote.
At 8:59 p.m., the Alberta Emergency Alert pushed out one other discover through social media, together with a hyperlink to their non-functioning webpage.
A provincial spokesperson advised Global News the webpage was being up to date because of the excessive demand it was below. The webpage appeared to return shortly after 9:30 p.m.
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