Evacuation of schools and municipal buildings in Heraklion as part of the “Minoas 2024” exercise

The evacuation process of schools (kindergartens, primary schools, high schools and high schools) and nurseries, as well as three Municipal buildings of Heraklion, was carried out as part of the operational exercise to deal with earthquakes and accompanying phenomena “Minoas 2024”.

According to the scenario of the exercise, at noon on Tuesday 22/04, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale occurred in the underwater area north of Heraklion, which was strongly felt throughout Crete, causing many disasters and a tsunami. In Heraklion, with the coordination of the teachers and following the prescribed procedure, 241 schools and 21 nurseries with approximately 31,000 children were evacuated without problems and in an immediate timeas well as the municipal buildings of the street Adrogeoof pl. Daskalogiannis and of L. Sophocles Venizelou by staff and citizens.

The Mayor of Heraklion, Alexis Kalokairinos, immediately after the evacuation of the Androgeo Street building, was at the operational center at PSKI where he participated in the meeting of the Regional Civil Protection Coordinating Body. In his statement, Mayor Alexis Kalokairinos pointed out that useful conclusions are drawn from these exercises, gaps are highlighted and the conditions for improvement are created.

It is recalled that the participation of the Municipality of Heraklion in the two-day exercise “Minoas 2024” included the provision of Communications & Networks Unit Mobile, a van of the Municipality of Heraklion specially configured to act as a telecommunications hub and contribute to the transmission of information between operating departments and control centers. He also participated by creating the telecommunications network for the whole island in collaboration with the Association of Radio Amateurs, having on hand project machinery and staff on standby, as well as with the concession of the Cultural Conference Center of Heraklion in which the operational center for all of Crete was set up.

The Deputy Mayors of Civil Protection Giorgos Karantinos, Education Antonis Perisynakis, Cleanliness, Environment & Energy Nikos Gialitakis, Technical Works Giorgos Sisamakis, Spatial Planning, Town Planning & Municipal Property Stella Archontaki – Kalogeraki and Municipal Police, Decentralization & Rural Development participated in the exercise with a special role. Manolis Hairetis, as well as General Secretary Maria Skrafnakis.

The article “Evacuation of schools and Municipal buildings in Heraklion as part of the exercise “Minoas 2024″” was published for the first time in CRETA24.

Source CRETA24