
Municipality of Florence (CdF), Italy
http://protezionecivile.comune.fi.it
The Civil Protection of Municipality of Florence provide to:
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The adoption and continuous upgrade of Civil Protection Plans:
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General Plan which defines:
- the municipal organization, the procedures and the actions necessary to deal with emergencies;
- all activities connected with population information and knowledge of Civil Protection;
- forecast and prevention for not structural activities;
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Hydraulic Risk Plan (overflowing of rivers or streams):
- It defines the operating phases and the relative typical activities based on intervention model of Civil Protection Plan of the Tuscany Region;
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Seismic Risk Plan:
- It defines the “damage scenario” allowing to get a local description of involved area and providing important information;
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Snow, Ice and Low Temperatures Risk Plan:
- It defines all strategies and procedures for actions to face the phenomenon forecasted or in action, represented by snowfall, vast ice formations and low temperatures.
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Citizen Information:
- Production and distribution of brochures;
- Training on best practices on primary (6-10 years) and secondary (11-14 years) schools;
- Meetings with citizens;
- Practicing and training with the involvement of the population (e.g. neighbourhoods of rivers subject to flooding risk);
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General Plan which defines:
- Communication Channels
- In emergency situations the Municipality, through the civil protection service, is the first institution to intervene in aid to the population: it removes the main or residual dangers and provides the first assistance to citizens affected by disasters.