Beja: “Fire” a warehouse Intermarché was test simulation.
“First smoking, much smoke, then they broke the flames”, just trigger an “fire” in the storehouse of the INTERMARCHÉ, in Beja. Immediately internal security gives the alarm. I was given the motto for the simulacrum.
They were 21,25 hours when the fire alarm went off in Intermarché, some of the lights are turned off and gradually, the two front doors of the commercial surface, workers begin to leave and are taken to the car park. Security alert the fire department Beja Volunteers (BVB), because internally you can not control the fire.
A few minutes later firefighters emerge. A car fire and two ambulances are shifted sinister. Pedro Barahona, second commander of BVB, talks with the head of security to realize what is happening.
The first concern is know if there are people injured or inside the building. A wounded surface was removed by a team of internal and taken to one of the ambulance and then transported to the hospital Beja. Immediately operational fire fighting are moved to the entrance of the warehouse, while trying the operational commander attempts to understand the correct location from where the flames erupt.
The PSP is the local and transit it enters the car park is diverted, not to disrupt relief operations. Some time after the fire is given as dominated and the next task and inspect the facilities and whether other facilities there some person or outbreak of fire, the answers are negative, Shortly after the alarms are turned off.
Present were members of the Municipal Civil Protection Service of Beja and the commander of the Fire, Manuel Baganha, that wrote down all the simulacrum of details and then make the reports and discussed all the points, good and bad.
Mário Nunes, Intermarché owner and administrator of the National Group Bases Musketeers: “The simulation aimed to test the internal teams of first aid, intervention and evacuation. Since we could not control the fire with our means was necessary the intervention of firefighters. Test situations that lead our staff to become operational and in case of risk assist our customers”.
It is recalled that on Sunday, day 1 March, It commemorated the World Civil Protection Day, promovido so oip – International Civil Defense Organization. The OIP is an intra-governmental organization that aims to contribute to the development of structures to ensure protection and assistance to populations and still safeguarding property and the environment from the disasters of natural and technological sources.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
