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The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAY) about the assignment, a 81 fire brigades, of 59 forest fire fighting vehicles (VFCI) and 22 forest tactical tank vehicles (VTTF), to be financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) in 12,6 million.
According to the News Journal (JN), in the district of Beja, seven Fire Departments from six municipalities will receive 7 vehicles. Six forest firefighting vehicles (VFCI) and a rural tactical tank vehicle (VTTR), being that the VFCIs are for the corporations of Moura, Serpa, Mértola, Almodôvar Ourique and Odemira and the VTTR for the Vila Nova de Milfontes corporation.
The League of Portuguese Firefighters (LBP) contests the distribution of 81 new vehicles for fighting rural fires, considering that at least 140 and that corporations with combat vehicles with more than 20 years of operation.
JN, President of the League, Antonio Nunes, said that the district structures had already been asked to survey vehicles with more than 20 year old, but believe that they are necessary “100 vehicles of
The commander of one of the fire brigades in the district of Beja that will receive one of the vehicles justified that “before the third quarter of 2023 we will not have received vehicles”, justifying the situation with “the opening of tender, the award and construction of the same”, concluded.
Aljustrel firefighters unhappy with vehicle distribution.
On 25 February, as Lidador Notícias revealed, the Direction and Command of the Volunteer Firefighters of Aljustrel (BVA) The victims circulated on the EN18 towards Beja.
In the document it is mentioned that within the scope of the Technical Operational Meeting of the District, the Aljustrel Fire Department, became aware of the list of allocation of Forest Fire Fighting Vehicles to the Fire Departments of the District of Beja, in which “our Association/Fire Department was not contemplated, when we have two Fire Fighting Vehicles with 28 and 40 years".
“We received this decision/news with surprise, discouragement and an overwhelming sense of injustice, because when we fill the determined requirements in excess, we do not understand the reason for such a deliberation. or don't know us? Or they don't know the means we have? Because its old age is nullifying the safety/quality of its missions and of the operatives who operate in it”, justify the Direction and Command of the BVA.
for these reasons, consider that “our Association/Fire Department, expresses itself decisively AGAINST the allocation of these means for not having been contemplated when it fulfilled all the requirements and if a response is not given to our claim, the operational response of the Fire Department is jeopardized, namely, in the Special Rural Fire Fighting Device 2022”, conclude.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
