Cuba: Fire close quarters for lack of effective.
Firefighters Cuba Volunteers with the closed barracks from the 20,00 hours. The lack of effective led to the suspension of aid during the night. The gates will reopen to 07,00 hours Thursday. The situation worsens at the end-of-week.
The lack of effective, He led the commander of Cuba Fire Department to suspend aid to the population and the occurrence of any accident or fire, at night that goes from 20,00 am to 07,00 hours from Wednesday to Thursday and Thursday to Friday. Fire Department's position The decision will also occur during the end-of-week, entre as 20,00 hours of Friday and 07,00 hours of Monday.
In the early evening on the facebook page of the corporation, signed by the chief of Cuba Volunteer Firefighters (BVC), José Chicken, It has issued a statement warning the public that this "does not have the resources to respond to requests addressed to it", explaining that this is due "to surrender to the governing bodies left the association, the situation has been acute and reached an unsustainable dimension ", justified.
José Chicken, Lidador told the News (LN) that "in question is the fact that many men have presented inactivity, by indirection of answers, in several chapters, and calls into question the lack of a service Scale, help to ensure that the populations ", adding that "operating were leaving. Remaining sixteen volunteers, half are employees. There are four drivers, one of them is the commander himself ", concluded.
Heard by LN, the commander of Relief Operations District Command (CDOS), Lt. Col. VÃtor Cabrita, It ensured that through the Integrated Protection and Relief Operations System (SIOPS), "The events that take place in the Cuban municipality, the aid shall be provided by fire departments from neighboring municipalities ", going to even be guaranteed by corporations Beja, Alvito and Vidigueira.
On Tuesday night held a meeting between John Portuguese, President of Cuba toward the Fire Volunteers, management since September last year and, the commander of BVC, order to overcome the crisis, but only resulted in the aid to the populations were ensuring during the day. According to found the LN, John Portuguese, who is also the Mayor, ordered the corporation's employees who are firefighters, They introduce themselves to the service on the morning of Wednesday.
José Roque, President of the General Assembly of the Bureau (MAG), He explained that "the body is active against Direction. He was blackmailing the threat to close the corporation "explaining that" saw news in North associations, where there riots and, They want to do the same in Cuba ", recognizing that "the reason attends to both parties", finished. The president of MAG, It went further by stating that one should not "make a tragedy of a situation that is to be solved with common sense", recognizing that the case "is dramatic and unbelievable", finished.
The situation in Cuba Fire, reached such severity that the second electoral act summoned to the last day 2 April, He did not show any list and has already led the President of MAG, to convene an extraordinary general meeting for next Friday to discuss the: "Current situation of the Active Body" and, seek answers to the: "Relief Commitment to the population" and "fire-fighting device".
In the last of the six points of the statement today emito, operating the BVC ensure that "it is our desire that this situation returns to normal as soon as possible, for the sake of people who proudly serve ", citámos.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
