Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has highlighted the importance of the prevention work in the field of Civil Protection to minimize the damages and consequences of the increasingly “numerous and virulent” adverse weather episodes or the destructive forest fires and has defended that the action in the field of Civil Protection must be increasingly present in the administrations.
He highlighted it in the act of imposition of the Cross of Officer of the Order of Civil Merit to Valentín del Hierro Rodrigo, head of the Territorial Unit of Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha.
In his intervention in the act of handing over this recognition, Tierraseca has defended that “the most immediate future in everything that has to do with Civil Protection will be increasingly present in the actions of the administrations, in general, and in the General State Administration, in particular”.
The delegate thanked Del Hierro Rodrigo for the “permanent communication” and “closeness” with which he has worked at all times, in addition to the “coordination” and good relationship shown with other administrations with competences also in the field of Civil Protection.
He has also stressed that he has been “mobilized, active” and has been anticipating on many occasions the possible effects of inclement weather or “unforeseen events that would seriously affect the normal development of our daily life.”
For his part, Valentín del Hierro, who has received this “deeply moved” Cross, has specified that, in this Autonomous Community, the most common emergencies are “forest fires and floods”.
Regarding this, he mentioned that we are seeing “the virulence and the repetitive succession” with which they happen and “some are predictable, but there are others that are not, nobody thought that we were going to have a Philomena, with that magnitude, or the pandemic, and that has forced us to revolutionize the way of work and machinery”.
He has also been grateful to have had, in any emergency situation of Civil Protection, the collaboration and support to act in its prevention and action both of the personnel of the General Administration of the State, and of the Security Forces and Corps, as well as of other administrations.
Del Hierro Rodrigo has deserved this distinction for having provided relevant services, of a civil nature, to the State. In particular, since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, developing functions and tasks of coordination and direction of groups and work teams, as well as tasks aimed at the preparation and development of actions in situations of risk and emergencies, and also during the heavy snowfall caused by the “Filomena” storm, in January 2021, and which caused damage in this Autonomous Community, especially the province of Toledo.