At two in the afternoon this Monday, the Emergency Operations Center (COE) begins the second phase of Operation “Awareness for Life, Christmas and New Year 2024-2025”, which seeks to prevent incidents and respond to emergencies that citizens who Travel to different regions of the country to share with family during the holidays may have. festivities of the time.
Through a statement, the COE indicated that the second stage concludes on Wednesday, January 1 and that the organization and the institutions that comprise it will once again establish a road prevention and safety device on the road sections of the main roads and highways of the national territory to prevent traffic accidents, alcohol and food poisoning.
He COE He reiterated that 47,422 collaborators from first response agencies will be redistributed, such as brigade members, doctors, paramedics, military, police, search and rescue specialists, volunteers and others.
Likewise, 1,263 assistance posts will be reinstalled, which will be located in points where the greatest number of incidents have been detected in recent operations.
Likewise, 570 ambulances, five vehicle extraction trucks, 71 vehicle rescue units, 19 mobile workshops and 3 helicopters that were arranged by the Minister of Defense, Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, will be redistributed to strategic points.
Regulation of cargo vehicles
As part of the actions that were taken to prevent the occurrence of accidents, the authorities reported that the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) reported that it ordered strategic actions to regulate the circulation of cargo vehicles throughout the national territory from Monday, December 30, 2024, starting at six in the morning, until Thursday, January 2, 2025 at five in the morning. tomorrow.
As well as that the circulation of heavy vehicles whose owners acquire their permits is always in the right lane.
The director of the organization, Juan Manuel Méndez García, called on citizens to assume the security measures that the central government has established to continue preventing incidents during the last festivities of the year.
“Prudence began to make a difference during the Christmas holiday and we hope more for this end of the year. These last hours left in 2024 are timely to reflect and be grateful for life and the blessings received, as well as to set new goals for the new year that is approaching´´, highlighted Méndez García.
