It calls for educating the country on risk management

The executive director of the Association Dominican of mitigation of disasters (ADMD), Juan Marmolejos, called for more education to the Dominican prevention population and risk management, a situation that means reduce human in the event of a disaster damage natural.

According to Marmolejos, is necessary to prepare the country in these respects, pointing out that it is a nation that will be affected on an ongoing basis by the passage of hurricanes and earthquakes, because the geographical location and the tectonic faults that run through the country.

"Evacuations are made by the instinct of survival of people." "Is not a regulation as it should be", said Marmolejos.

Marmolejos said that it was necessary to create a culture of prevention and mitigation of risks, based on the fact that the country is highly vulnerable to natural phenomena. The expert said that Dominican Republic is among the 10 countries u000amore vulnerable to level world.

He explained that the country is located just at the junction of the North America and the Caribbean plates which places us as a nation that can be repeatedly affected by the earthquakes.

"If we are going to a restaurant will not find a route of evacuation." "Have no brigades until arriving firefighters and Civil Defense, because those who work there do not have capabilities to emergencies", said Marmolejos.

Evaluation in Nagua
Teonilda Gómez correspondent reported that yesterday continued evaluation of the damage caused by the recent earthquakes in the María Trinidad Sánchez province and became a lifting of the public buildings and private
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