Meteoro 2025 organized and disciplined

Havana, May 26th. - The People's Exercise of Actions in Disaster Situations Meteoro 2025, which concluded today, with organization and discipline, strengthened the preparation to face dangers of natural, technological and health origin.

Santiago de Cuba developed a series of demonstration exercises, and one of the most relevant moments was the earthquake drill, where specialized brigades carried out evacuation and rescue actions in vulnerable areas.

In addition, fire response tests were carried out with the participation of the Fire Corps, which demonstrated the speed and effectiveness in the extinction of casualties.

Several demonstrative practical exercises were held today in Ciego de Ávila with a view to strengthening the capacities of the management and command bodies in the face of the occurrence of emergencies, as part of the Popular Exercise of Actions in Meteoro Disaster Situations 2025.

In areas of the central Twelve Strory building of the provincial capital there was an exercise of extinction of a fire, rescue and rescue of people, in which the Rescue and Light Rescue Group of the territory participated, as a fundamental force, in addition to the Fire Corps, the Cross

Red and the Single Integrated Emergency System (SIUM).

As part of the 2025 Meteor, the Avileños also developed exercises of occupation of protective works in the event of hurricanes, cleaning of rivers, canyons, ditches, canals, and pruning and logging of trees that affect electrical and communications layouts.

With an emphasis on preparation for phenomena of technological and natural origin, emergency landing drills, firefighting and rescue victims were developed in Holguín as part of the exercise.

In the face of a cyclonic season that is predicted active, with a high probability that hurricanes will originate and intensify in the Caribbean and that the island will be affected by its impact, preparations of protocols for action, seismology and meteorology were developed in the same way.

With practical activities aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and protecting essential resources for the feeding of the population and the economy such as rice and tobacco, the Exercise of Actions in Disaster Situations Meteor 2025 concluded in the province of Sancti Spíritus.

To the Manolo Solano Base Business Unit, a rice industry located in the city of Sancti Spíritus, and belonging to the Agroindustrial Company of Granos Sur del Jíbaro, arrived the Provincial Defense Council,

led by its president, Deivy Pérez Martín, to verify the work aimed at the hygienization of its areas and the preservation of the defendant assortment.

In Nueva Gerona, the Municipal Defense Council, chaired by Rafael Ernesto Licea Mojena, noted the active participation of the community in tasks such as: pruning trees, cleaning ditches and disburstruction of sewers, all aimed at reducing risks and vulnerabilities in both state centers and neighborhoods.

An ammonia exhaust drill was carried out at the Milk Combination where the workers' response capacity for a timely and orderly evacuation was verified.

Walter Simón Noris, president of the Provincial Defense Council in Camagüey, highlighted the protection of human lives as the main stronghold of Civil Defense in Cuba, and called on command structures and the population to strengthen unity to prevent and mitigate possible damage to situations of danger.

With the willingness to support in disaster situations, the littermen of Camagüey people undertook during the Meteoro work that included the change of damaged transformers, damage solutions and tree pruning in the vicinity of the cyclonic season.

Carlos Eberto Pérez Ortega is one of the amateur radio stations that in Pinar del Río, for more than two decades, and since the command post of the Provincial Defense Council, has been a kind of bridge between the Vueltabajo authorities and the sites hit by a hydrometeorological event.

In the western territory there are about thirty Pinar del Río that are activated and even move to places that are isolated in hydrometeorological events.

There are many places where they go, including Punta de la Sierra, in the municipality of Guane, which is isolated in cyclones or intense rains due to the flood of the Cuyaguateje River - he said.

Faced with the controlled fuel spill on the premises of the inactive thermoelectric José Martí, and breakdowns in the unitary block Antonio Guiteras, he tested response capacities in the province of Matanzas, before and during the Meteor 2025 Popular Exercise, which passed this weekend.

The Meteoro de la Guiteras is a daily newspaper, 365 days a year, recognized the General of Army Corps Joaquín Quintas Solá, vice minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, during a visit to the plant on the recent Saturday, on the first day of the popular exercise.

The exercise, which took place since last Saturday, took place to zones 05 and 06, in the north of the city of Las Tunas, where a very low part is located, vulnerable to floods, especially in Gonzalo de Quesad Streets, specifically on the blocks that range from the "Nicolás Heredia" to "Menocal."

For a long time that part of the city, very close to the historic center, was of frequent floods, which also caused the winding of knee-jerks that wind those places in the city.

Osmany García López, vice president of the Municipal Defense Council, told the Cuban News Agency that Santa Clara is vulnerable to flooding in 39 areas and although it will be operated by companies and labor collectives in other actions they would concentrate efforts on risk reduction on that front.

In statements to the media, Edelvis Pérez Cepero, director of community services in the provincial capital, explained that among the security personnel, drivers, machinery operators and podiers had more than 210 dedicated to the task of cleaning the Cubanicay River channel, next to the hospital area. (Text and Photo: Cubasí)