The director of the National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention to Disasters (Sinapred), Guillermo Gonzalez, explained that this first training corresponding to the year 2025, seeks to strengthen the organizational capacity of response in neighborhoods and communities.

According to Gonzalez, the exercise also has among its objectives, to strengthen the articulation between the population and the first response institutions.

According to Sinapred authorities, the prevention activity will be developed in more than 7,400 scenarios in schools, universities, institutions, health services, markets, private companies and churches.

Among the hypotheses of the exercise is the intention that the population applies self-protection measures in case of earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides in mountainous or peri-urban areas, as well as forest fires in rural areas.

We are in a period of the year where phenomena such as earthquakes can occur on the coasts of our beaches, but also the effects that these phenomena have on the mountains, which can produce landslides, they can even produce collapse of some slopes in important volcanoes’, explained Gonzalez.

In this sense, he added that at this time of the year there are agglomerations in urban areas and being in the dry period, one of the threats from which we must protect ourselves are fires.

We are going to prioritize the resort area.

We have 89 communities that are in zones exposed to the presence of a tsunami and therefore we have to give priority to that area, the official pointed out.

He added that another priority will be the educational system, so that the university areas put into practice the emergency and school safety plans, among other actions.

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