A PCP delegation, including deputy Paulo Sá, elected by the Algarve, met this morning with the mayor of Monchique, to analyze issues related to forests and fires.
In this meeting with the mayor Rui André, the actions of prevention, surveillance, detection, first intervention and combating forest fires were analyzed, in a municipality where the forest plays a fundamental role in the local economy, with a survey of measures being carried out. likely to contribute to the prevention of forest fires and to improve the effectiveness of their combat.
In this context, the communists reiterate the need to implement, at national and regional level, the measures contained in the Draft Resolution No. 291/XII, "To strengthen the means of structural prevention of forest fires - Reduce the biomass load", presented by the PCP in the Assembly of the Republic last April.
The PCP emphasizes that “the tragic forest fire of Tavira/S. Brás de Alportel, last July, made evident the vulnerability of the Algarve mountain range and revealed significant delays in the development of structural prevention, as well as deficiencies in the device for fighting forest fires».
«All the lessons and lessons from the social, economic and environmental disaster caused by the forest fire in Tavira/S must be drawn. Bras de Alportel. The various reports drawn up, as well as the parliamentary hearings held on this fire, give clear indications of what needs to be done to stop the scourge, which year after year, is destroying the Algarve's forest, “add the communists.
Today's meeting with Monchiquense mayor Rui André is part of «a set of meetings and contacts with the aim of carrying out an assessment of the vulnerability of the Algarve mountain range to forest fires».
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