José Luís Carneiro, Minister of Internal Administration, visited this Wednesday, June 14, the São Brás de Alportel Air Means Center and the Headquarters of the Humanitarian Association of Volunteer Firefighters.
This visit was carried out within the scope of the Roadmap to the Special Device for Combating Rural Fires (DECIR) and was attended by Brigadier General José Duarte Costa, president of the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection, and Pedro Miguel Silva, member of the Council Executive of the Mobility and Transport Institute.
This was the moment chosen so that the Minister of Internal Administration could see the Air Means Center of São Brás de Alportel, which began its functions on the 17th of May, already having two helicopters on standby.
The infrastructure was created in the IMT Maneuvering Park, in an investment by the municipality of São Paulo that had the collaboration of other entities, such as the Volunteer Firefighters of São Brás de Alportel, the Hunting Club “Os Neighbors dos Machados” and the Municipality from Loule.
«What we are doing here today is the opening of an Air Resources Center with a view to qualifying the system for the improvement of the first attack» to fires, highlighted Minister José Luís Carneiro in his intervention in which he also highlighted that, in the year In the past, the proposed target was surpassed, since more than 90% of the fires that occurred on national soil were extinguished in the first 90 minutes.
For the president of the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection, the implementation of this Air Resources Center is “further proof that nothing can be done in this country without collaboration, revealing the fundamental help of local authorities”.
«It was the mayor who moved forward and the fact is that the Center is in sight», he continued, highlighting the record time in which the space was transformed and operationalized with the effort of the Municipality and its collaborators.
«We are proud to be able to participate in this solution», underlined, in turn, Vítor Guerreiro, mayor of São Brás de Alportel.
«Currently we are living in very complex times that confront us with climate change, lack of water, extreme temperatures and we have to prepare to prevent», he said, pointing out that in the scope of prevention the Municipality invests annually more than 700 thousand euros distributed by 23 axes of action carried out through partnerships.
Prevention work is carried out throughout the year with the execution of fuel management lanes to protect the road network and clusters, as well as the creation of water points, maintenance and expansion of the forest road network and actions raising public awareness, which is a vital partner in preventing incidents.
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