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Township Santomera exercise scenario was now an emergency intervention after an earthquake of 5.5 magnitude, with a drop of telephone and radio in the town and its satellite recovery, performance has been done first in the Region of Murcia in a simulated exercise.

The exercise, which began at eight o'clock, simulated the earthquake's epicenter in the swamp of Santomera and aimed to activate the Plan Sismimur in level 1 in order to verify the correct operation of the transmission and effective organization of attention to this type of disaster.

The performance was attended by five hundred troops, firefighters and rescue dog units and underwater, sanitation, local police, civil guards, members of Civil Protection and Emergency Military Unit.

Damage to the dam and the Institute

The simulation was initiated after the advice given in the Emergency Coordination Center by the workers of a quarry, he felt a movement that causes collapse of earth and rocks, and several missing persons, damage to the dam wall of the reservoir, in the town of Santomera and a secondary school, concerned after aftershock.

The various stages of work led emergency teams acting in the swamp Santomera in the check dam in the search and locating missing and rescue and evacuation of students, so that those affected were transferred to a field hospital and downtown homeless.

The Minister of Presidency and Public Administration, María Pedro Reverte, directed the operation from the Advanced Command Post, located in the town park and ride where there was a satellite videoconference to coordinate actions between the Emergency Coordination Center 1-1-2, the Advanced Command Post Santomera and the headquarters of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), which from early morning facilitated the restoration of communications over a military satellite.

Reverte stressed the importance of satellite communications in emergencies, noting that "coordination and involvement of all institutions and organizations is achieved through this type of preparation and training exercises."

Source: CARM