Case 1: Cyprus

Objective: The primary objective of the Pilot Use Case 1 is to enhance the training and preparedness of various civil protection organizations, fostering the island’s resilience against climate events leading to digital breakdown.

Location: Larnaca

Scenario

An extreme rain event over the island’s port city of Larnaca, causes flash flooding that leads to:

i) a power outage to several CIs and residences;

ii) a communications failure amongst the dispatched FR teams; and

iii) a failure in the (government’s) citizen alerting platform as a consequence of i) and ii). The rainwater overwhelms the Finikoudes region, where hundreds of tourists become stranded, while the overall road network becomes severely congested.

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