The exceptionally harmful situation experienced by the DANA For Andalusia stressed the need to apply security and prevention operations as quickly as possible, because they are essential to minimize material damage but above all to avoid human losses.
The main thing is that municipalities have a protocol that traces the path of different professionals, but also citizens, in the event of disaster situations –the fires, earthquakes, floods– something that has increased significantly since 2019.
According to the Advisor to the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanzsince the arrival of Juanma Moreno at the Junta de Andalucía, territorial emergency plans for local civil protection (PTEL) have increased “by 50 percent”.
This was stated on Thursday in a question posed to the plenary session of Parliament regarding the measures ordered by the Andalusian government after the damage caused by the cold fall in the region, which include an aid program of 75 million euros.
Sanz stressed that “the PTELs have been activated in all provinces”, a sign that “it is prevention that has marked the actions of the Council in the management of the emergency by DANA”.
Beyond the gradual increase over the last five years, the truly important fact, again according to the Council, is that only 3.78 percent Andalusians live in population centers that do not yet have a PTEL.
These plans are essential because they are based on a prior analysis of the particular risks facing the municipality and determine what are the most effective actions to deal with them or, in the worst case, avoid greater losses.
The Ministry of the Presidency recalls that the PTEL “must identify and evaluate the risks of the territory to which it refers, establish the catalog of means and resources to deal with them, in addition to the organizational and coordination structure, without forgetting the alert and information”. mechanisms to the population and its integration into higher level plans such as the Territorial Emergency Civil Protection Plan of Andalusia.
Likewise, they insist that “the development of these plans is obligatory in accordance with the law of the National Civil Protection System.”
