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 News from Around Banderas Bay | July 2006 
Puerto Vallarta Prepares Temporary Emergency Shelters
 PVNN
| | Looking out over La Palapa Restaurant's rooftop at the waves crashing over Los Muertos Beach Pier during Hurricane Kenna on October 25th, 2002. (PVNN) |
Hurricane Kenna, one of the strongest Pacific hurricanes to ever strike Mexico, afflicted the Banderas Bay area in October of 2002. This year, as part of preventive actions proposed by the Municipal Preparedness Committee to be implemented during the hurricane season, authorities and committee work groups toured the municipality to determine the feasibility of 33 locations that can be used in case of another hurricane or other natural disaster.
Secretary General of City Hall, Antonio Lugo Morales, after noting that the committee's activities were intensified one-and-a-half months before the season began, explained that since last year the Committee began assessing red lights in the municipality and are using the information as a basis to create a plan that meets all the needs of the population.
Morales went on to say one person was palced in charge of each shelter during the committee's last tour, which will increase the promptness of the response to emergency. The committe hopes that this will result in lives saved and a guarantee, not only to residents or Puerto Vallarta but to visitors as well, that the city is prepared with the logistics and the infrastructure necessary in the event of another atmospheric phenomenon.
Among the temporary shelters approved by the committee are the Ejido Halls in Ixtapa and Las Juntas; the Elementary Schools Octavio Paz and 21 de Marzo in Las Mojoneras, Emancipación Ixtapa, Constitución Elementary School in Colonia San Esteban, the 20 de Noviembre School in downtown and the Municipal DIF Day Care Center in la Colonia Aramara.
Other approved temporary shelter locations include the CTM Auditorium in Los Sauces, Salón Club de Leones in Colonia Emiliano Zapata, Vicente Guerrero Elementary School in Colonia Benito Juárez, High School No. 29 in Aralias, Francisco González Boca Negra y Juan Escutia Schools in Colonia Ramblases; High School No. 81 in Colonia Bobadilla, elementary Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in Coapinole, as well as Adolfo López Mateos School in Colonia Agua Azul.
Finally, Morales invited the general public to collaborate with the authorities by keeping up-to-date about the presence of seasonal natural phenomena and, in case of doubt, to ask for information with the wellbeing of their families in mind. |
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