The City Council of Gata de Gorgos has recently approved, initially and unanimously, the Municipal Territorial Plan for Emergencies. The function of this document is to establish, in a general way, the way in which resources are structured and organized to deal with emergencies.s that can be developed at the municipal level.
Therefore, the PMT will be added to the Municipal Action Plan (PAM), which serves to deal with a specific risk in a municipality or supra-municipal entity. Joanvi Vallés, councilor of the Government of Gata de Gorgos, explained that this PTM It will be reviewed every 4 or 5 years to be able to adapt it to changes that are given by the municipality.
Currently, the risks that determine that the Municipal Territorial Plan against Emergencies is mandatory in the municipalities are floods, forest fires and seismic risk. Specifically, Gata de Gorgos is located in a territory at high risk of forest fires and at a low-medium level of seismic risk.
Thus, the PTM offers an action plan to the Municipal Coordination Center, CECOPAL, which is headed by the mayor, Josep Francesc Signes Costa, and coordinated by Vallés. The company Prohenec has been in charge of preparing this mandatory document through the call for grants for the drafting of new emergency plans at the local level of the Agency for Security and Response to Emergencies of the Ministry of Justice, Interior and Public Administration .