Since we're talking about BC, they released their wildfire app[1] a few years ago and made it so you can't use the website from mobile anymore. The rationale being that this app can notify you of evacuations in progress

Unsurprisingly it's much worse than the website itself and not working well (look at the comments).

I think you have a point, but Twitter was very reliable until it was bought out, and served as a centralized notification channel where you could have all your sources, official and informal. I don't want to have to replace it by 6 different apps for weather alerts, drivebc alerts, wildfire alerts and so on; especially if they are worse than Twitter. I also prefer my government to spend money on the actual service (predicting weather, tracking and fighting fires, tracking traffic) than on duplicating the work of creating a delivery channel.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.bc.gov.Wild...