Services Municipal Emergency, among which are effective for Civil Protection and local police in Totana, participated today in the device emergency coordination and security with the simulation of a chemical accident at a factory in the industrial park "The Saladar" of Totana, and the implementation of operating in different parts of the town.
The Ministry of Presidency, through the Directorate General of Public Safety and Emergency, today confirmed the effectiveness of the External Emergency Plan Chemical Industry in Totana, where an accident was simulated in the company "Fuentes Fertilizantes", next to the industrial park.
In the exercise, in addition to technicians of the regional administration specialists participated emergency services company, firefighters Consortium for Fire Fighting and Rescue Region of Murcia (CEIS), Guardia Civil, Local Police, Civil Defense and Red Cross Civil protection, chemical hazards and environmental quality.
The accident was simulated is the spill of a chemical that evaporates, would cause a toxic cloud, accident considered Category 3 (those for which potential victims, serious property damage or serious disturbance of the environment over wide areas is expected outside the factory), which has led to the activation of the external Emergency Plan Chemical Industry in Level 1 (accidents that can be controlled with the means of intervention available in the Community require measures for the protection of persons, property or the environment which could be threatened by the effects of the accident).
Acted first response teams accidents Company and subsequently received support CEIS Fire Department.
Outside, the forces of order isolated intervention area, while Civil Protection spread through mobile public address, in the area that could be affected by the possible toxic cloud, public warnings advising their confinement.
The Directorate General of Quality and Environmental Assessment of the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment Trade Fair moved to Totana a mobile unit for measuring air quality.
Meanwhile, Red Cross set up a tent staffed by a team Immediate Emergency Response.
The Directorate General of Public Safety and Emergency displaced Totana its Mobile Command Unit, where technicians Civil Protection Service will coordinate the development of the exercise.
These resources were located in the square that serves as fairground, between the streets San Francisco de Asis and Minister Fernández Ordoñez of the town.
At the same attended by the Mayor of Totana, Juan José Canovas, the first deputy mayor, Andres Garcia, Councilman Safety and Emergency Agustin Gonzalo Martinez, and other members of the Municipal Corporation.
