Through the Sub-Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Commands (CSEPC), the Fire Departments that received the eighty-one vehicles under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRP), were informed this Tuesday, that by order of Margarida Blasco, must stop immediately.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), the communication states that “by determination of the Minister of Internal Administration, all vehicles allocated to the PRR, must collect from the entities' parks (Fire Departments) until further noticeâ€, no justification is given as to the reasons behind this decision.
It is worth remembering that last Thursday, upon learning of Dinis Conceição's death, operational of the Odemira Volunteer Firefighters (GFA), one of five involved in the rollover of a forestry firefighting vehicle (VFCI), the LN stated that anomalies were detected in the vehicle involved in the accident, so it would be inspected by the bodybuilder on Monday, day 7 January.
Na height, LN questioned ANEPC about possible problems with the vehicles, including that of the Odemira firefighters, who were sent back to the bodybuilding company, the authority clarified that “an investigation process is underway, according, with the procedures in force, Therefore, no additional comments will be made until its conclusion.â€, justified.
Yesterday, several fire brigades delivered their vehicles to the bodybuilding company for the two types of vehicles delivered to the corporations., in a lot where the BVO's accident vehicle was also included.
It is recalled that the accident occurred around 20,00 hours last wednesday, in São Teotónio, when the VFCI, where five operatives from one of the permanent intervention teams were traveling (EIP) from the Odemira Fire Department, returning to the barracks, after fighting a fire in Savoy.
The vehicle was traveling on the access road to Boavista dos Pinheiros, and when describing a curve he ended up overturning, leaving the five occupants injured, with three being imprisoned and two falling outside the vehicle. Among these was Diniz Conceição, who was trapped under the arch of one of the vehicle's wheels., who would die at the Hospital de São José, in Lisbon, where she was hospitalized and had undergone several surgical interventions.
In March 2022, the LN revealed that through the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) the Ministry of Internal Affairs, via National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC) would deliver eighty-one forestry firefighting vehicles (VFCI) and rural tactical tank vehicles (VTTR). The delivery of a first batch of 10 Car, where was the Odemira fire department?, It occurred on 14 May 2024, in Ourém, in a ceremony presided over by Margarida Blasco, Minister of Internal Administration, and Duarte Costa, President of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC). The rest were delivered between June and October last year.
Vehicles delivered in the Beja district
Between May and October 2024 seven vehicles were distributed to corporations in the Beja district. Six forest firefighting vehicles (VFCI), to Odemira corporations, Almodovar, Mértola, Moura, Ourique and Serpa, and a rural tactical tank vehicle (VTTR) to the corporation of Vila Nova de Milfontes.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
