Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - Sunday afternoon, just before Sunday night's big storm, Puerto Vallarta Mayor Arturo Davalos Peña met with members of the Civil Protection and Fire Department to analyze the strategies and preventive actions in place to ensure the safety of families living in high risk areas during the rainy season.

At the meeting, the mayor said that safety information had already been distributed to citizens living in the areas that are considered to be at risk, because "protecting the lives of our people is, and will always be, our first priority."

He emphasized that out of all of the works performed by his administration, the biggest responsibility is to safeguard the welfare of Vallartenses, and that is why it is imperative that all of the municipality's various departments work together to provide the population with the best living conditions and security possible during the rainy season.

The head of Civil Protection and Fire, Adrian Bobadilla García, presented a diagram of the different colonias considered as 'at risk' areas, either by landslides or flooding, have been apperceived to be a total of 445 homes, representing a total of 1,300 people.

This situation, he explained, is mainly focused in seven colonias, which are: Benito Juárez, Las Peñas, Presidentes Ejidales, Papanezzi, Libertad, Lomas del Mar and Ramblases Ecológico, where they are already working with families so, if so required, they can be evacuated or relocated to safer areas. They are also working with the colonias considered vulnerable, where mitigation and prevention have already been conducted.

Civil Protection and Fire Department Sub Commander, José Luis Tello, described this meeting as fruitful, saying the fact that the mayor knows and cares about the prevention work being done is of great support to those who make up this municipal agency.

"We have always had the Mayor's back for any emergency that needs our support, and now we have City Hall supporting our efforts. In the 15 years I have been with the Fire Department, this is the first time a mayor has improved coordination with other institutions to see that the work being done pays off for the benefit of citizens," he said.