Municipality of Florence (CdF), Italy

http://protezionecivile.comune.fi.it

The Civil Protection of Municipality of Florence provide to:

• The adoption and continuous upgrade of Civil Protection Plans:
  • 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;
  • 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;
  • Seismic Risk Plan:
    • It defines the “damage scenario” allowing to get a local description of involved area and providing important information;
  • 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.
  • 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);
• 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.