The latest tragedy that devastated the Valencian Community makes the rest of the communities reflect on the measures and protocols they have to deal with emergency situations. In the case of the Government of Aragon, the Minister of Development, Housing, Logistics and Territorial Cohesion, Octavio López, chaired this Monday the Regional Cooperation Council, during which he committed to strengthening the mechanisms that depend on its jurisdiction to improve efficiency in the face of possible bad weather, such as DANA.
López will promote more training sessions on civil protection aimed at regional presidents and technicians so that in the event of a hypothetical flooding of a river or ravine, they know as well as possible and apply the emergency and disaster plans. evacuation provided for in Territorial Civil Protection. Plan of Aragon (PLATE).
Training and exercises
Training actions aimed at improving the response to meteorological emergencies are already established, in fact, recently some conferences have been organized for this purpose, but Octavio López considered it appropriate to deepen this subject to provide regional managers with sufficient knowledge to answer it. always very complicated situations.
“For this reason, I have instructed the Director General of Local Administration to once again organize practical sessions aimed at preventive action in a scenario of threat or natural disaster which results in increasing the security of citizens” , he declared.
A new training action in which Aragón 112 technicians will explain the chains of command and how information should flow in an emergency.
“We must do everything possible to ensure that civil protection plans are known to your teams, with clear managers and chains of command, telephone numbers and the most effective means of contact at all times and transmission mechanisms of information between those responsible for making decisions and facing the population,” López explained to the regional presidents.
This also showed the intention of the Government of Aragon to facilitate that, throughout this year and the next, simulations can be carried out to put into practice all the theoretical knowledge acquired.
The councilor stressed that help lines are being studied to strengthen, update and develop municipal plans, particularly in neighboring municipalities and others considered particularly dangerous on the map and catalog of risks. ‘Aragon because of their geographical location or their industrial activity. . which takes place in its municipal area.
DANA in Aragon
Aragon has also suffered the assaults of the last two DANAS, that of late August and early September and that of two weeks ago, which, although they did not cause bodily harm, threatened the integrity people and caused enormous material damage. damage in more than 60 municipalities in five regions: Community of Calatayud, Comarca de Cariñena, Cuencas Mineras, Bajo Aragón-Caspe and Sierra de Albarracín.
Urban planning permit
Regarding town planning and the granting of permits in the Community, the councilor assured that Aragon has shown for years “enough rigor” in the granting of town planning permits which, in any case, can sometimes be done with “certain conditions”. “It’s not all or nothing.
“Time shows us that when the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation affirms that there is a clear difficulty for a project to fit into urban planning, it is true, whether we like it or not, because in the end, years later, problems and circumstances arise “It is so unpleasant that they occur and, if there is no human damage, it is good, but when there is in a, we remember that thirty years ago we were very lax in granting a certain license,” said López.
In this sense, the advisor maintained that the Government of Aragon will work “in very coordination” with the CHE, the regions “and the town halls that have difficulty solving what this DANA has produced, also to train people and many .” better in the future and to provide a solution to a very serious structural problem.
