Civil Protection wants to debate fires with Government and parties

My friends, this was taken from Jornal de Notícias newspaper:

http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=3404633

Civil Protection wants to debate fires with Government and parties

The Portuguese Association of Technical Safety and Civil Protection audience asked the Minister of Internal Affairs, parliamentary groups and the president of the National Authority for Civil Protection to discuss the wildfires.

In a letter sent to those authorities, the Asprocivil considers that forest fires are "not a plan," but rather "enhanced and even allowed" by disinvestment made ​​in recent years in the industry, with the consequent reduction in means and the absence or ineffectiveness of the measures prevention.

For Asprocivil, fire prevention is essentially the responsibility of owners, owners' associations, local councils, the concessionaires of roads and highways and even the state itself "that do not make the cleaning of its forests."

"Prevention is not done when approaching fireworks season, or half a dozen panels and / or announcements, prevention is done with a National Permanent information throughout the year, aimed attitudes, behaviors and measures prevention to citizens, "reads the letter.

The lack of urban planning, municipal emergency planning, firebreaks and water points, including air assets to, and control of access to forest areas, besides the "lack of operational commanders under municipal law" are to the association, other factors enhancers fires.

To these factors plus the "lack of technical expertise" and the delivery of municipal services to the Civil Protection 'technical' completely alien to the sector of civil protection "as well as" difficult situation "that fire departments have been posting every year with the decrease in the number of troops.