The Gran Canaria Emergency Consortium will train its almost 40 middle managers in Marseille in the new Operational Management and Command System (GOM) that will be implemented in Spain, an operations management and coordination system that France has already established and imparts in its reference training center, explained the president of the Consortium, Pedro Justo Brito.Thus, the corporals of Gran Canaria will go in groups of ten to the École Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers (ENSOP), where they also have instructors who speak Spanish.The first group already took the course in May and, after the assessment of the attendees, the entity has decided to send the rest of those responsible, starting in September, a commitment to training to which the Emergency Consortium will allocate 30,000 euros.The current system is the traditional "Incident Command System" of American origin that France has adapted to the European territory.The National School of Civil Protection of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior and the Professional Association of Firefighters Technicians (APTB) have signed an agreement with the French training center to facilitate the instruction of Spanish firefighters in Marseille, whose manual has already been equally validated given that the ultimate goal is to implement it in Spain.In fact, it has started with training modules aimed at senior managers.Given the need to train its middle managers, the Gran Canaria Consortium joins the national bodies that have decided to send their staff to France to advance as soon as possible in the transition to the new system, a process that will cover the coming years, explains the manager, Emilio Duch.Alberto Barrio and Javier Montero, two of the managers who went to France in May, emphasize that the real facilities that the complex has are very striking, either to deal with a fire on a fourth floor or in a dangerous goods vehicle , with which they achieve practices "as real as possible in that they are drills", a possibility that is not available in Spain, where there are isolated elements, but not an entire "neighborhood".In fact, it has a 25-hectare technical field with six sectors that contain a single-family home, a four-story housing tower, an urban complex of several buildings, with a hotel, shops and houses, two two-way highways and scrapping to burn and cut, in addition to 65 intervention vehicles, containers for 'flashover' combustion, smoke explosions and smoke gallery for training with automated breathing equipment.This one-week theoretical-practical course not only instructs in decision-making and anticipation in handling an incident, but also encourages coordination with other bodies to be able to integrate under the same operation due to an exceptional and high-profile situation. wingspan.The attendees faced fires in homes in the basement, garage, ground floor, first, second and fourth floors, in addition to a gas leak, a traffic accident with cars and another with hazardous materials.Each exercise uses a first command vehicle, a fire engine, a ladder truck, a rescue vehicle and an ambulance, so that they manage up to four vehicles with their corresponding crews.The objective is the acquisition of skills for managing and coordinating emergencies, solving real situations of extinction and rescue, coordinating with the rest of the services and giving adequate relief before the incorporation of a hierarchical superior to the operation.For this, it is necessary to gather information on the evolution of the incident, mobilized services, evaluate operational needs, as well as options according to the means in charge, in addition to ordering operations, controlling the evolution of actions, sectorization and coordination with other commands. and, finally, analysis after its resolution to incorporate the lessons learned into future situations.