The government of Quintana Roo through of the Dirección Estatal de Protección Civil implement preventive mechanisms for protecting to population and the tourists that visit us. For that reason, every year it distributes 120000 leaflet and 60000 posters about the recommendations that people can do before, after and during a hurricane; and of Early Warning System. Besides, the mass media transmit recommendations too.
When a hurricane develops over Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, Protección Civil monitors it, keeps informing the people and start working the Consejo Estatal de Protección Civil and the Comité Operativo Especializado en Fenoménos Hidrometeorológicos.
Recommendations:
Before a hurricane
• Buy non-perishable or canned food.
• You should have to first aid kit.
• Get a battery operated radio, hand flashlights, candles, batteries and matches.
• Protect your official documents.
• If your house is not secure, you should go a shelter. Close to your home, there is a shelter that has been assigned for your area.
• Store drinking water for several days.
• Have what necessary at transportation, food and medicines.
• If the authorities recommend you to evacuate, Do it!...Don’t think it twice!
After a hurricane
• When a hurricane comes in to affectation radio for the State, every three hours the route and path of tropical system will be issued.
• Disconnect the electricity energy, gas cylinder and make sure that there isn’t leaking.
• Move away from the sea side and protect yourself of the wind.
• Don’t go out from your house or shelter until the authorities indicate you.
Pay attention to eye of hurricane
• If the eye of hurricane passes over your city, it will have calm. During this time, you must not go out of your shelter because after the wins acquire force again and blow at opposite direction.
After a hurricane
• Return to devastated zone until the authorities say that there is not danger.
• Don’t move injured people, report them to the authorities.
• Don’t touch fallen cables.
• Be careful with walls, houses and buildings that are in danger of collapsing.
Quintana Roo has won the prize “Good neighbor Arward” in two occasion in 2006 and 2008 because after of the hurricanes Emily, Wilma and Dean didn´t have injured or died people. The actions that the government took to protect to population were the best.
When a hurricane develops over Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, Protección Civil monitors it, keeps informing the people and start working the Consejo Estatal de Protección Civil and the Comité Operativo Especializado en Fenoménos Hidrometeorológicos.
Recommendations:
Before a hurricane
• Buy non-perishable or canned food.
• You should have to first aid kit.
• Get a battery operated radio, hand flashlights, candles, batteries and matches.
• Protect your official documents.
• If your house is not secure, you should go a shelter. Close to your home, there is a shelter that has been assigned for your area.
• Store drinking water for several days.
• Have what necessary at transportation, food and medicines.
• If the authorities recommend you to evacuate, Do it!...Don’t think it twice!
After a hurricane
• When a hurricane comes in to affectation radio for the State, every three hours the route and path of tropical system will be issued.
• Disconnect the electricity energy, gas cylinder and make sure that there isn’t leaking.
• Move away from the sea side and protect yourself of the wind.
• Don’t go out from your house or shelter until the authorities indicate you.
Pay attention to eye of hurricane
• If the eye of hurricane passes over your city, it will have calm. During this time, you must not go out of your shelter because after the wins acquire force again and blow at opposite direction.
After a hurricane
• Return to devastated zone until the authorities say that there is not danger.
• Don’t move injured people, report them to the authorities.
• Don’t touch fallen cables.
• Be careful with walls, houses and buildings that are in danger of collapsing.
Quintana Roo has won the prize “Good neighbor Arward” in two occasion in 2006 and 2008 because after of the hurricanes Emily, Wilma and Dean didn´t have injured or died people. The actions that the government took to protect to population were the best.
Remember, don’t pay attention to rumors.
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