A Macro Simulation was Successfully Accomplished in La Aurora

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On the occasion of the National Disaster Protection Day, this Thursday the macro simulation in La Aurora was successfully implemented, where 3 thousand 823 people of 64 apartment buildings were evacuated, schools and businesses that are part of this residential development, in a time of eleven minutes.

This year's results were announced by the head of the Municipal Coordination of Disaster Protection and Firefighters Department, Sergio Ramírez López and the Second Regional Commander of the State Disaster Protection Unit, Oswaldo Hernandez Arvizu, who reported that in the simulation, which hypothesized an earthquake of 7.5 degrees on the Richter scale with its epicenter in Cihuatlán, Jalisco. The possible scenarios that a natural event like this could generate were considered, for which rescue operations were conducted from the top of the buildings, were 13 victims were treated for various injuries, a fire was quenched and a person was arrested under the assumption of foray in the affected area.

Hernandez Arvizu further noted that these activities involved 163 officers of the Municipal Coordination of Disaster Protection and Firefighters Department, Disaster Protection Department, the Navy, Federal Police, Red Cross, Traffic Police and Public Safety, as well as 43 volunteers who showed that working in coordination things go well. He also stressed that it is the first time that this type of exercises are performed with the neighbors of a colony, in which he added that the involvement of the educational institutions was valuable.

Present at the scene, the General Secretary Antonio Pinto Rodríguez, referred to the efforts that the City, in coordination with the various levels of government, maintains to promote a culture of prevention among Vallartans, "these exercises without a doubt add to it and we will keep fighting, we will be generating exercises of this type much more forcefully and continuously, and each day we will be ensuring that the citizen participation is greater".

It should be noted, that the councilor Susana Mendoza Carreño, president of the Disaster Protection Committee, was aware of these tasks at all times, as well as the various local government officials, who also collaborated in the drill.

 

[readon1 url="http://notivallarta.com/2013/09/19/se-realizo-con-exito-el-macro-simulacro-en-la-aurora/"]Source: NotiVallarta Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]