The Emergency Operations Center (COE) began this Monday, December 30, starting at 2:00 pm, the second phase of Operation “Awareness for Life, Christmas and New Year 2024-2025”, which seeks to prevent incidents and respond to emergencies that citizens who travel to different regions of the country may have to share with family during the festivities of the season.
This second stage of the operation, which will conclude on Wednesday, January 1 at 6:00 pm, the organization and the institutions that comprise it will once again establish a prevention and road safety device on the road sections of the main roads and highways of the national territory. to prevent traffic accidents, alcohol and food poisoning, with the redistribution of 47,422 collaborators of first response agencies, such as brigadiers, doctors, paramedics, military, police, specialists in search and rescue, volunteers and others.
Likewise, 1,263 assistance posts will be reinstalled, which will be located in points where the greatest number of incidents have been detected in recent operations.
Likewise, 570 ambulances, 5 vehicle extraction trucks, 71 vehicle rescue units, 19 mobile workshops and 3 helicopters that were arranged by the Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Fernández Onofre, ERD, will be redistributed to strategic points.
As part of the actions that were taken to prevent the occurrence of accidents, the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT) inreported that it ordered strategic actions to regulate the circulation of cargo vehicles throughout the national territory from Monday, December 30, 2024, starting at 06:00 am, until Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 05:00 am . As well as that the circulation of heavy vehicles whose owners acquire their permits is always in the right lane.
The director of the organization, Juan Manuel Méndez García, called on citizens to assume the security measures that the central government has established to continue preventing incidents during the last festivities of the year.
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