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It’s effectively the “Boy Who Cried Wolf” effect.\n\nIf there is ever a really important safety message that I should receive in my watch zone, I will miss it simply because I’ve learned to ignore and delete notifications from this app. Or at best, ignore them at the time and scroll through them later to see if there was anything important.\n\nI actually think the amount of superfluous notifications in this app is dangerous. It encourages complacency.\n\nOn a related note, there is no distinction in the app between a life threatening bushfire and a single bush that’s caught fire in the suburbs somewhere. We need to reserve the word bushfire for community level emergencies. That word needs to strike fear into the hearts of those who hear it.\n\nSeeing a notification that there’s a bushfire in my suburb, and then finding out that the incident was a small shrub that smoked a bit and a passing fireman put it out by throwing a bucket of water on it again encourages me to ignore warnings from the app as sensationalised.\n\nI’m not saying that we shouldn’t be notified of those incidents, but don’t call them bushfires. We all know the damage, fear and chaos a real bushfire can cause. Let’s not diminish the meaning of a bushfire warning by teaching people to react with “oh it’s probably nothing. 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