Exercise TOURO 2019
Date: 05/07/2019 to 06/07/2019
Promoted by the Regional Service of Civil Protection and Firefighters of Azores (SRPCBA)
- Objective: to test the efficiency, speed and responsiveness of Civil Protection agents with a special duty of collaboration, as well as their coordination and performance in situations of serious accidents or catastrophe.
- Scenario: seismovolcanic crisis in the Pico Volcano (Pico Island), with media transport on the ground for 24 hours. Rescue work of citizens and situations of destroyed homes, obstructed roads, isolated populations, evacuations of people, missing persons and other accidents and incidents that occur during an earthquake were simulated.
Exercise TOURO 2018
Date: 20/09/2018 to 23/09/2018
Promoted by the Regional Service of Civil Protection and Firefighters of Azores (SRPCBA)
- Objective: to prepare all Civil Protection agents for a greater degree of efficiency in the actions of support and relief to the population in a scenario of seismic crisis.
- Scenario: increase in seismic activity in the central part of the island of S. Miguel (volcanic systems of Fogo and Congro), with earthquakes of high magnitude (M 6.2) and destroyers.
Exercise AÇOR 2018
Date: 20/09/2018 to 25/09/2018
Promoted by the Azores Operational Command (COA)
- Objective: the joint operational training of the commands, forces and means located in the Azores archipelago in response to a situation of seismic crisis.
- Scenario: increase in seismic activity in an epicentral region located about 4 km south of Ribeira Quente (Furnas, island of S. Miguel), with earthquakes of high magnitude (M 5.6) and destroyers.
