Kikilias chairs meeting on preparing for possible heavy snowfall in Attica

A broad meeting was held on Monday at the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry, chaired by the minister, Vassilis Kikilias.

The meeting focused on ways to address problems that may arise if there is intense snowfall in the Attica region. Kikilias noted that the meeting was held in order to again draw the municipalities' and regional authority's attention to all aspects concerning preparation and organisation for coping with extreme weather conditions.

"We have already requested this in letters sent out in early November and now we are repeating it. We ask that they have the necessary machinery that is needed for the opening of roads, that there is a record of the vulnerable groups in every municipality ....and, of course, there is provision so that municipalities and regions have road salt and salt spreaders," Kikilias said. He emphasised that it was very important to have a plan in place in order to be able to respond in the best possible way, if and when there are intense weather phenomena.