The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has highlighted the importance of prevention work in the field of Civil Protection to minimize the damage and consequences of the increasingly "more numerous and virulent" adverse weather events or the destructive forest fires and has defended that action in the field of Civil Protection must be increasingly present in the administrations.
He has highlighted it in the act of imposition of the Official Cross of the Order of Civil Merit on Valentín del Hierro Rodrigo, head of the Territorial Unit for Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha.
In his speech at the award ceremony for this recognition, Tierraseca has defended that "the most immediate future in everything that has to do with Civil Protection is going to 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 the "closeness" with which he has worked at all times, in addition to the "coordination" and good relationship shown with other administrations also with powers in the field of Civil Protection.
He has also highlighted having been "mobilised, active" and having anticipated the possible effects of inclement weather or "unforeseen events that will seriously affect the normal development of our daily lives" on many occasions.
For his part, Valentín del Hierro, who received this Cross "deeply moved", has specified that in this Autonomous Community the most frequent emergencies are "forest fires and floods".
On this, he mentioned that he is seeing "the virulence and the repetitive succession" with which they follow one another and "some are predictable, but there are others that are not, nobody expected that we were going to have a Philomena, with that magnitude, or the pandemic, and that has forced us to revolutionize the way we work and the machinery”.
He has also been grateful for having had, in any Civil Protection emergency situation, the collaboration and support to act in its prevention and action both from the staff of the General State Administration, and from the Security Forces and Corps, as well as from other administrations .
Del Hierro Rodrigo has been deserving of this distinction for having provided relevant services, of a civil nature, to the State. In particular, since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, he has carried out functions and coordinated and directed work groups and teams, as well as tasks aimed at preparing and carrying out actions in situations of risk and emergencies, and also during strong snowfall caused by the storm 'Filomena', January 2021, and which caused damage in this Autonomous Community, especially the province of Toledo.
