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El Ministro de Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación administrativa, Antonio Sanz, announced at the inauguration of the day to address drought, Danas, and the tsunami, organized by the Association of Builders and Developers of Seville (Galeco), that the Andalusian Emergency Agency (EMA) will have a risk analysis unit. Specifically, a Unit for risk analysis and impact evaluation in civil protection formed by professionals specialized in the analysis of different parameters This condition of the evolution of forest fires and floods or any other incident that may affect Andalusia.
The councilor explained that this body will allow more parameters to be activated when issuing an alert, Having old opinions (state meteorological agency), but also parameters such as orography, nearby population, other climatic conditions, nearby tanks, low seas or wheels, state canals among others.
In other words, this unit, whose germ is the current UTAF of Infoca (the technical unit for the analysis of fire incidents), will anticipate technical reports to make decisions based on meteorological information and also on geographical, sociological, maritime, and phenological information about Andalusia, as well as previous studies on vulnerability and population infrastructure.
«We are talking about science applied to emergency management, We are talking about proactive emergency management, technical decisions based on scientific knowledge.
We are talking about operational efficiency adapted to the new sizes of risk derived from climate changes,» said the councilor, who added that today emergency response must be built «with more data and more analysis, and Andalusia has the capabilities and tools to do so.
«This specialized unit will be fundamental because today we have to advance and consider all options before an emergency.» He emphasized.
The councilor also announced that the council has launched a working group to prepare a new category of flood risk areas that divides Andalusia not only into areas with potential risks but also into areas with different levels of danger. That is why regulatory changes will be made, so there is a legal obligation for evacuation risk cases, as in other countries like the United States.
New self-protection decree for the population
In addition, Antonio Sanz advanced that the board is already working on the elaboration of a self-protection decree for individuals in handling an emergency, especially aimed at adults and children. Antonio Sanz emphasized that «a fundamental part of emergency management is to have a prepared, informed, and capable format to know that the response must be faced personally, save lives, and protect others.»
The councilor emphasized the need to anticipate possible emergency situations for which the council was already a pioneer in preparing a Plan for tsamot risk emergencies in Andalusia, of which the first of the local plans against Tsunamis in Cadiz is already prepared, to which others will be added by cities throughout the Andalusian coast.
The main difficulty is to complete the planning at the local level, where escape routes and meeting points are considered.
Antonio Sanz stressed that «There is no equivalent work on the continent on the issue of Tsamot that has been done in Andalusia, with the knowledge of our technicians and the support of the European Union.» In this sense, with the aim of informing the general population, the Board has already published both a tsunami and flood teaching guide.
Other examples with which Andalusia was a pioneer are the territorial plan for civil protection emergencies, being the first community to adapt it to the new criteria established by the basic regulations of the state or by the decree regulating the local civil protection system, something essential to ensure the coordination, cohesion, and effectiveness of municipal civil protection policies, being the first autonomous community in Spain to develop it.
The councilor emphasized that due to the local civil protection system, local territorial plans (PTEL) were approved, so in Andalusia, 96.22% of the population lives in a municipality with a plan.
In this sense, he influenced the Development of the comprehensive plan to manage emergencies in Andalusia (PIGEA) for which the council allocated investments of 17 million euros, a single site where all information related to an emergency will be centralized, as well as the activation and implementation of the new digital emergency network of Andalusia (fence), with an investment of 27 million euros. «Today we can say that Andalusia has the largest digital network in Europe in its category, covering almost the entire territory,» said Antonio Sanz.
The council also launched the Alert system (reverse system) that is sent to mobile devices of citizens in danger, and this was activated during the two recent Danas experienced. We also work to create an emergency network to support professionals extending the collaboration that already exists with the College of Psychologists to other professional associations (for roads, architects, engineers).
In addition, at the Governing Board meeting on January 28, the creation of the Humanitarian Aid Commission was approved before an international emergency situation that will allow Andalusian resources to be available to other administrations in situations requiring urgent humanitarian action.
All these actions are included under the umbrella of the Agency for Security and Comprehensive Emergency Management (EMA), which has a budget of 270 million euros in 2025 and whose main objective is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the response to civil protection and emergency risks that arise in Andalusia. EMA is the largest agency in Spain, with nearly 5,000 troops and groups in a common management system for 112, for civil protection, in IESPA, the emergency group of Andalusia (heavy); and in the Infoca operation.
The Andalusian government is also working on regulatory development so that EMA can coordinate in cases of serious emergencies for the 7,000 civil protection volunteers and 10,000 local police officers from the 505 bodies in Andalusia.
Antonio Sanz emphasized that Andalusia is at the forefront of modernizing the emergency system and concluded that «in emergency situations, there is no zero risk, so we take the safety of Andalusians and work to anticipate it.»