The radar system of the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts (Cemaden) has not been around for about a year in Salvador and makes it difficult to predict rainfall intensity, which can bring more inconvenience to the city and even compromise lives.
The information was confirmed on Saturday (25), in an interview with CNN, by Sosthenes Macêdo, Director General of Civil Defense of Salvador (Codesal) and president of the National Forum of Civil Defense Secretaries.
The complaint comes from climatic disasters observed in Brazil and also after the Federal Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) states that it will investigate precariousness in Cemaden.
Servers reported the MPF that there are 92 workers to serve 1,113 cities throughout Brazil. And as in Salvador, the equipment used to monitor weather conditions is broken or out of operation in some places in the country.
Sosthenes cited an example for gravity in the failure of such a system. “Radar was not able to predict the volume of rainfall that hit the Bahian capital in November 2024. The information came late for our professionals with significant accumulated, without being able to trigger sirens in risky places. As a result, Salvador’s Cemadec (Civil Defense Alarm Monitoring and Alarm Monitoring Center) satellites pointed out that the rainfall would be lower than what caused a number of damage to the city, including the landslide that caused the death of two people in the Saramandaia neighborhood. It’s a criminal attitude, ”he said.
The director also reported that several several offices were sent from Codesal and the National Forum for Federal Bodies, but has not yet seen the return due to the populations. Therefore it considers the MPF investigation important to take action.
“Civil Defense acts in the form of systems. National System of Protection and Civil Defense, State Systems and Municipal Systems. Of course, the federal government that has most of our nation’s tax cake has more resources to provide these bodies that help states and municipalities, what we have followed is that due to the absence of these national public policies, the states as they are Paulo and the municipalities as Salvador have taken their own measures. So some cities like Porto Alegre has also been a monitoring center similar to ours, Niterói-RJ, São Paulo, other states that have their own structures, but effectively who should be feeding all this mesh, all this information network for States and municipalities have been placed in a lethargic form bringing these damage and constituting a severe risk to the lives of Brazilians, ”he added.
This content was originally published in Cemaden’s meteorological radar has been not working for a year in Salvador on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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