The Beja Air Show 2024 (BAS24), military air show organized by the Portuguese Air Force (FAP), will be held on the air base grounds, for the first time, civilian rescue teams, in a partnership between the military institution and the Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command of Baixo Alentejo (CSREPCBA).
The excellent partnership between the Portuguese Air Force (FAP), from which the command of the Air Base cannot be disconnected (BA11) 11, in Beja, personified in its commander, Colonel João Rosa, native of the city and the Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Command of Baixo Alentejo (CSREPCBA), where the fire departments, are the maximum exponent, allows civil aid to be provided inside the Alentejo military unit for the first time.
Over the two days of the Beja Air Show 2024 (BAS24), 124 operational and 54 vehicles with different characteristics, of the thirteen corporations in the Beja district, except Odemira who belongs to the Coastal Command, will be committed to the “BAS24 Operational Device”, as the first response to any eventuality inside and outside BA11.
The device is framed by a Joint Command that includes seven structures: FAP, CSREPCBA, Fire department, INEM, PSP, GNR and Municipal Civil Protection of Beja, a Crisis Office is also prepared, for any exceptional accident with any of the aircraft, as happened a few decades ago when two aircraft collided in mid-flight.
The BAS24 Joint Command will be located next to the BA11 fire station, where there will also be an INEM Exception VMER, with a doctor and a nurse.
When Lidador News (LN), Jose Horta, second commander of CSREPCBA, began by highlighting “the commitment of the firefighters in this operation and the openness and sensitivity of the new BA11 commander, which is the only way to make it possible to have motivated people on the ground”, justified.
José Horta revealed that there will be two Operational Sectors, “one inside BA11, with 22 operational and others abroad, distributed across the three main access roundabouts to the unit with pre-hospital groups and in the town of São Brissos, with a Fire Fighting Brigade, in a strategic area where aircraft perform aerial displays, with 34 operational and 6 command elements”, concluded.
The second commander of CSREPCBA, leave a guarantee: “The Fire Departments and the structure are prepared because they frequently carry out this type of preparation and since 2021 what the device has done for the Beja Air Show, although always outside the Air Base”, summed up.
Reservation of seats and blocked areas
If some have already marked places in São Brissos today,, area bordering BA11, in order to see the Beja Air Show from the outside, others blocked access to their properties with huge boulders, in order to prevent the invasion of vehicles, the expectation in the small village close to the Civil Aeronautical Terminal (TAC) it's big, with the restaurant and café on site, to have an increase in visitors and thus increase revenue.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
