The Mayor of Crevillente, José Manuel Penalva, the Councillor for Citizen Protection, Josep Candela, and the Emergency Technician, Rubén López, presented the new Territorial Plan for Crevillente Emergencies, which will replace the previous one dated 2018, and two Municipal Action Plans, one against the risk of forest fires and the other against seismic risk.
These three projects were approved in the plenary session of November 2021 and will allow planning the response to emergency situations in the municipal area. The public exhibition was also attended by the Chief of the Local Police, José Cristian Cañizares.
For the mayor, these new plans “represent an important advance in emergency management and, most importantly, in protecting our citizens, since they provide an organisational instrument with a planned response to situations of serious risk or catastrophes such as the one we witnessed in its day with DANA, or later with the pandemic.”
And he added that “now the next step is the implementation of these plans so that the population of Crevillente knows at all times what to do in an emergency or in the event of a risk”, with the development of drills planned.
As the Councillor for Citizen Protection, Josep Candela, explained, the previous Territorial Emergency Plan, despite being from 2018, had not been implemented and was out of date, so it has been renewed. “Everything we have experienced in recent years has helped us learn and be able to write a new plan that we have approved together with the two municipal action plans, which specify how to act in the event of fires and possible earthquakes.
This work is very important as it allows us to know how to react in the first hours of a catastrophe and to be able to speed up the intervention of the emergency services”.
Josep Candela also highlighted that the Crevillente is the municipality with the most Emergency Plans in the area. And he has advanced that it is also drafted, in the absence of being approved by the Generalitat Valenciana, the plan against the risk of flooding, very relevant especially for the districts. “Taking into account the weather and the orography of our town, it is very important to have this planning that will help us lessen the consequences and know how to act before them.”
The council have announced that the implementation of the municipal Action Plans in schools will soon begin, having already signed the contract for the review of all the emergency plans that the schools have. “Drills will begin to be implemented and developed so that the children of Crevillente are protected against any catastrophe” the mayor concluded.
