The civil protection it's a system that has been installed in each country and that has the mission of providing protection and assistance for the citizens who reside in it, and to those who have passed through, in the event of any type of natural disaster or accident.. He will also be in charge of the protection of property and the environment. Putting it in simpler terms, it will take care of the management of the emergency services that exist in a nation.
Formally, civil protection was born at the request of the Geneva Convention, August 12, 1949Its main mission being the protection of the victims of international armed confrontations.
The fundamental proposal is to protect society from the hostilities to which they may be subjected in these contexts, assist them, help them recover from the immediate consequences.
Evacuate, organize shelters, apply security measures, prevent contamination, organize first aid, indicate and isolate dangerous areas, provide accommodation, articulate emergency measures to restore basic services, are some of the basic tasks that civil protection will deploy .
It is worth mentioning that the organizations that manage civil protection will be in charge of organizing the citizen participation arm that will act in the event of catastrophes to support the emergency services that work in exchange for a salary, such is the case of firefighters.
The emblem adopted for civil protection consists of a blue equilateral triangle that lies on an orange background and was chosen from its birth due to the need to assign it a symbol that allows its international recognition.
Now, none of these elements has been chosen at random since the color blue is a color that refers to protection and tranquility and on the side of the triangle, in religions, it symbolizes the supreme and protective energy and for example is that it was adopted too. And finally the orange color represents alertness.
