“I prefer that 112 goes out, that all fellow citizens are suspicious and know what is going on, than that it doesn’t go out once and we mourn even one human life”
“The forest commanders with EMAK left by air in the middle of the night at great risk to reach the Roseplus the forces we had in the area, the Local Government, the Army, the Police. Everyone was well coordinated and organized. There was prevention in 112 and in Lemnos and in Halkidiki and everywheresaid the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Vassilis Kikilias.
As he noted, the climate crisis and the major natural disasters affecting the entire planet prove that human life is always prioritized above all, and for this reason citizens must now be especially careful and disciplined in the authorities and 112, even if sometimes the messages do not exactly respond to the weather phenomena that finally come. “We must listen and pay close attention. And if we sometimes exaggerate with 112, the recommendations of the Risk Assessment Committee – which is the Observatory, the EMY and our top scientists – are these. I prefer that 112 goes out, that all fellow citizens are suspicious and know what is going on, than that it doesn’t go out once and we mourn even one human life” emphasized the minister.
“Civil Protection does its job, it did it very seriously. As we did it in the summer with the fires, so we are doing it now with the floods. With a lot of effort and a lot of effort, these children, the people of EMAK, the forest commanders of EMODE, the volunteers, the special rescuers, 4,000 thousand calls in three days, very, very large mobilization in the field. A big thumbs up to all these people. And Greek society must feel that, yes, the state is next to the citizens and helpingsaid the minister, pointing out that there is a plan for the most difficult scenarios, and for Attica, which, as he mentioned, is overpopulated and there are flooded streams, such as in the northern part of Kifissos, where 50 houses are built in the stream and 2 factories.
Reiterating his view that in some areas compensation should be given to owners, some properties should be demolished and streams should be cleared, Mr. Kikilias emphasized that the money for these compensations “is many times over. In other words, I believe that now – the president of the European Investment Bank who visited me in the war room of Civil Protection – said that for every 1 euro we invest in prevention and in infrastructure projects, we save 8 euros from disasters”.
Finally, regarding infrastructure, he said:The government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis – I want to be honest – in these five years made not steps, but significant leaps in the field of civil protection, but also of public works. There was generally a situation, which was not settled, we did not even know what the main projects are, where they are, if they have progressed. Now a prioritization is done based on the funds that are available, because there is no money to do everything horizontally in the unit of time. And the reduction of time, the reduction of bureaucracy and the more efficient state are legislated permanently. We saw this in the case of the Ministry of Civil Protection. Mr. Mitsotakis gave 2.1 billion euros for the AEGIS program. And suddenly we have drones and we saw them working and a war room in the Civil Protection, the 112 which they had discredited, the top tool that exists. Engage to see the forces operating in the field. Artificial intelligence, new Canadair, new helicopters, 1,200 fire engines are coming».
Source: Skai
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