Beja: District fire hardens position on the ANPC.
Firefighters create "Autonomous Command Internal", to strengthen media in occurrences in the district. The “Peacekeepers” ensure that the populations “under any circumstances, the suspension of the provision of information to CDOS, affect the provision of relief”.
More than three dozen commanders and telephone switchboard operators of fifteen fire departments of the Beja district, They met this morning in this city, to define guidelines, the decisions taken on Saturday, in Santarem during the National Council meeting of the League of Portuguese Firefighters (LBP).
One of the decisions of a "Service Order" analyzed the present, It was the creation of an "Autonomous Command Internal" (CAI), so that "any reinforcement applications external to the Fire Department (CP), is submitted to the Central that CP, whose commander shall see the application or it will inform the Body of Fire neighbor or GNR, PSP, INEM or eventually the SMPC ". This CAI act and manage the reinforcement means of extrication or fire fighting vehicles, continuing the pre-hospital emergency being managed by CODU / INEM.
The meeting came the strengthening of communication for those who "under any circumstances, the suspension of the provision of information to CDOS, affect the provision of relief", He told JN, Pedro Barahona, Fire commander of Beja Volunteers (BVBeja), who added that "the objective is that the population knows more than the chain of command", to not be transmitted to operational information on events, and to "leave the ANPC in the dark", summed up.
Pedro Barahona added that the CDOS "stops forwarded to operational information by computer, telephone and also via radio "on the conduct of operations" nor the situation points "on events", justified.
The commander of BVBeja secured to populations "suspension of the provision of information to the CDOS, It does not affect the reception, dispatch or sending means and rescue, in response to distress signals from any entity, including CDOS ", finished.
In the "Service Order", the commanders of fire make it clear that "the suspension of information to CDOS, and procedures defined, stay will be indefinite, until further notice, transmitted by the command ".
The Lidador News (LN) contacted by phone, Lt. Col. Victor Cabrita, commander of Beja CDOS, for a reaction on the decisions taken by the commanders of fire, but it said it was "in a meeting". Throughout the day we will seek to get to talk with the CODIS Beja, to know your opinion on the decisions taken this morning.
Teixeira Correia
(Journalist)
