When the unthinkable happens while you're passing through unfamiliar territory. SIGNALERT offers a way to be better prepared for risks during the 2024 Olympic games.

You're traveling in France, in Paris, to the Olympic Games sites, on vacation or for work. Would you know how to react in the event of a catastrophic event or danger caused by natural phenomena or human action?

The SIGNALERT smartphone app gives you access to answers to questions that are essential for dealing with different types of phenomena that may occur in the area you are passing through:

• What are the existing risks in the city and their possible impacts?
• What form do alerts take, and what action do the authorities take?
• What areas are at risk, and am I in them?
• How can I find out about an observed or anticipated event?
• How can I prepare?
• What should I do and what shouldn't I do, and how can I protect myself?
• Similar major events that have already occurred in the city.

The 2024 Olympic games are a major global summer event centered in Paris. Hundreds of thousands of spectators and fans come to enjoy unforgettable moments in Paris. But if the event turns out to be a natural disaster, an industrial accident or a terrorist attack in a place you don't know, in a country whose language you don't speak, it's best to have a few simple points of reference to help you react as best you can to a danger whose gravity you can't immediately gauge. Recent summers in Europe have shown that intense natural phenomena can strike anywhere (torrential rains, extreme drought, heat waves, forest fires). New emerging risks can also strike (dengue fever, air pollution). Dengue fever, air pollution) as well as latent risks linked to certain industrial infrastructures. Reacting appropriately to protect yourself is all the more difficult when you are confronted with a dangerous phenomenon for the first time, and are unfamiliar with the territory you are visiting and its language.

SIGNALERT's participatory mapping and early warning smartphone application features a summary document on Major Risks, providing information based on recommendations issued by municipal and national authorities, which you need to know for your safety in the face of a dozen phenomena: flooding, heavy rain and runoff, collapse, subsidence, drought, heat wave, extreme cold, snowfall, strong winds, industrial accidents or accidents involving the transport of hazardous materials, air pollution, health risks and pandemics, unrest, violence and the risk of terrorist attacks.

The information is available in just two clicks, and in three languages (French, English, Spanish), it provides you with the essential information you need to react correctly, while locating you on the application's main screen. You download and store the document on your phone, and it remains accessible even offline.

The two main Olympic cities, Paris and Saint-Denis (Olympic stadium), are already available, and other French cities affected by other types of risk will soon be online.

To find out more, access the document on the SIGNALERT application, give your opinion and help make this information channel even more useful.

At the same time, you can consult the maps showing the location of Olympic venues throughout France, as well as the zones of controlled or forbidden access around the facilities where the events are taking place in the Paris region.

The SIGNALERT application also accompanies you outside France with the publication of numerous dynamic maps on current phenomena such as cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as static maps of exposure to the risks of flooding, marine submersion, tsunami and volcanic risks, enabling you to locate yourself in relation to these potential danger zones in different countries, regularly supplemented with advice on behavior by type of phenomenon.

SIGNALERT also relays flood early warning alerts in France, and will soon be relaying numerous early warning systems for different risks.

Contact : signalert@orange.fr www.signalert.net , Paris, France

This product is made available with the support of the MINISTRY OF ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND TERRITORIAL COHESION and the MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AFFAIRS as part of the JOURNEE NATIONALE DE LA RESILIENCE 2023 (JNR 2023 accredited project no. 14296070).