A meeting was held today by the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection for the timely preparation of the state mechanism in the field of flood protection with the participation of district governors and district representatives. Mr. Kikilias he pointed out that vigilance is needed as the fire protection season is not yet over and high temperatures and heat are still prevailing. Regarding the preparation for winter, he called “very satisfactory the recording of the progress of the projects in the regions both in terms of execution and in terms of the development of the studies and procedures.

The goal, as he said, is “to coordinate, but also to help this effort”, while he pointed out the flooding phenomena, such as the bad weather “Boris” that recently hit the Central and Eastern Europestressing that “the climate crisis is here and it leaves no room for laziness and mistakes and lack of organization”.

“So we will do together with you, everything that is humanly possible, organized, professionally and on time, in order to permanently reduce the chances of having problems in any climate flare-up” he emphasized and added saying that “we experienced it in our country last year with him Daniel».

The deputy minister Evangelos Tournasfor his part, spoke about the fire season which has not yet ended and asked all agencies to be ready and prepare for floods as well, asking for the update of the “DARDANOS” flood response plan.

The general secretary of Civil Protection Vassilis Papageorgiou, the chief of the Fire Department Theodoros Vagias also participated in the meeting, while the regions were represented as follows:

– Region of Attica: Deputy Regional Governor of Civil Protection, Leonidas Manolakos

– Region of Central Greece: Regional Governor – Theofanis Spanos

– Region of the Ionian Islands: Region Governor – Ioannis Trepeklis

– South Aegean Region: Regional Deputy Governor of Dodecanese – Christos Efstratiou

– Region of Western Greece: Regional Governor – Nektarios Farmakis

– Region of Crete: Regional Governor – Stavros Arnautakis

– North Aegean Region: Deputy Regional Governor of Lesvos – Konstantinos Aronis

– Region of Epirus: Civil Protection Coordinator – Dimitrios Mavrioorgos

– Region of Eastern Macedonia & Thrace: Deputy Regional Governor of Civil Protection – Konstantinos Venetidis

– Peloponnese Region: District Governor – Dimitrios Ptochos

– Region of Central Macedonia: Director of Civil Protection – Charalambos Stergiadis

– Region of Western Macedonia: Authorized Civil Protection Adviser – Ioannis Kioses

– Region of Thessaly: Region Governor – Dimitris Kouretas