National Civil Protection Emergency Plan has already been deactivated

The National Civil Protection Emergency Plan, activated on February 1st, was deactivated this Friday, February 20th, taking into account the worsening of meteorological and hydrological risk scenarios, Civil Protection announced.

The deactivation of the plan was decided at the second extraordinary meeting of this year of the National Civil Protection Commission, which took place this Friday at the headquarters of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC), in Carnaxide, Oeiras, chaired by the Secretary of State for Civil Protection, Rui Rocha.

The National Civil Protection Emergency Plan had been activated due to the worsening of meteorological conditions such as high precipitation and its impacts from a hydrological point of view, particularly in terms of floods and floods, in addition to the territory already being affected by the consequences of the Kristin depression.

With the activation of this plan, which only took place five days after the Kristin depression, “reinforced, integrated and nationwide coordination mechanisms were preventively guaranteed”, namely “the establishment of an uninterrupted flow of information between all government areas and entities involved, in support of the direction of the plan”.

ANEPC indicates that the meeting resulted, unanimously, in the decision to deactivate the National Civil Protection Emergency Plan “in view of the worsening of meteorological and hydrological risk scenarios, which are currently in a normal situation for the time of year”.

The meeting of the National Civil Protection Commission, the political coordination body in matters of civil protection, was attended by those responsible for the various entities that make up the National Civil Protection System.

Eighteen people died in Portugal following the passage of depressions Kristin, Leonardo and Marta, which also caused many hundreds of injuries and displacement.

The total or partial destruction of homes, businesses and equipment, the fall of trees and structures, the closure of roads, schools and transport services, and the cut of energy, water and communications, floods and floods are the main material consequences of the storm.

The Centro, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and Alentejo regions were the most affected.

The calamity situation that covered the 68 most affected municipalities ended on February 15th.