Prime Minister Edi Rama, in a meeting with the mayors, also focused on the flood in Vlora, requesting from all municipalities that there should be a better organization of the structures, as well as their training. Rama said that no matter how excellent the infrastructure was, it would not withstand the first blow, but the structures must be ready to go on the ground at the first moment of reaction.
“It is a fact that all countries have to deal with fires in summer and floods in autumn and winter. The nature of these phenomena has changed and changes every year. We have seen what happened in Austria and we saw what happened in the days when here Vlora was flooded, in Bosnia where many people lost their lives and where the damage and the surface of the open wound there is staggering.
There is a simple explanation beyond the popular and tendentious analyzes of floods that the pattern of rainfall has changed. Some time ago, the flood in Dubai became spectacular, where in the span of 18 hours, an amount of rain fell equal to 4 consecutive months of rain in London. There is no infrastructure, no matter how excellent, to withstand the first blow.
What we cannot ignore is the weakness that appears in our response at the local level either to fires or to floods. Taking it to the floods, it is necessary to have a special focus on the organization of the structure, training, enabling and training of the whole structure that must be ready to go to the field at the first moment of response. When it’s the strike phase, nobody does anything, but the whole structure must be put into operation,” said Rama.
