The Valencia City Council will form the population on how to act in case of emergency, what protocols exist, what are the alerts and how to interpret them correctly to minimize the risks for people. Following the conclusions of the Study Commission on the effects of the DANA, the local government, together with the two public universities of the city, have constituted a commission to create a training plan for training, training and awareness aimed at citizens, which will begin to move in the next school year.
The project aims to “prepare the residents of our city in responses to emergencies, know the alerts and know how to act in each of the situations,” according to the Councilor for Innovation, Paula Llobet, at the beginning of the works. It is a constant and regular formation that includes the interpretation of the alert signals, the search for information channels, the ways of asking for help, safe behavior at home, or what to do in certain situations. “The awareness of the danger is key,” says municipal sources, which highlight this governance and public participation tool, which will provide individual and family response guidelines to protect itself.
The commission, led by the director of the Sustainable Economic Model Chair Valencia, José Manuel Pastor, works with a multitude of experts in detecting the needs of the population and the main deficiencies that can affect an emergency, in search of clear protocols and precise instructions that minimize the risks to a temporal, a fire or an episode of floods. The plan will focus especially on the elderly, young people, children and vulnerable groups and their surroundings and will be reviewed by the municipal firefighters, police and civil protection technicians. Also, Maria José Catalá’s government team wants to put special emphasis on the formation of training in the districts, especially damaged after the October Dana.
The training plan will be developed with capillary groups, those that can spread the information. The graphic component will be of great importance to overcome linguistic barriers – especially relevant in a tourist city and that has 20% of its foreign population – and adapted to people with disabilities and vulnerability. It will be explained, for example, what types of notices exist, the morphology of the city and its characteristics in relation to climatic disasters -a luck of citizen memory of the water -, the first steps after an flood, how to correctly manipulate equipment, how to make an inspection of damages, with the focus on the importance of the neighborhood organization and support networks.
Emergency care improvement
In parallel, the City Council develops a pilot program with the Local Police, financed with 200,000 euros from European funds, to improve the coordination of emergencies. The Lead-Pro project, which will execute a sample in the tower in June 2026, seeks to accelerate the use of emergency technologies to improve the capacity of police forces in disaster prediction and facilitate recovery.
The project includes the use of data analysis technologies -Big Data and Artificial Intelligence- to process real -time information, through anomalies detection systems. It is about creating a stronger alert system and improving capacities such as geolocation, both for citizens and emergency troops, accelerating the response to a crisis. It is also intended to refine the evaluation tools with the analysis of aerial images, satellite networks or weather information. The project incorporates the use of drones for the evaluation of the affected areas, rehabilitation of energy and data networks or the recovery of systems, through decentralized operations, to facilitate recovery after an episode of crisis, and the use of robotics for work in dangerous areas.
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