the Civil Protection District Commission of Viana do Castelo triggered the District Emergency Plan “because of the number of fires, the exhaust of fighting resources and weather conditions for the next days.”
the decision was taken about 23 hours Monday at a meeting held in Relief Operations District Centre (CDOS) of Viana do Castelo, “following the wave of forest fires recorded on days last days with the worsening of situation on Monday. “
They are being prepared aerial means for the early morning
After the meeting, told the Lusa agency, the president of the District Commission for Civil Protection (CDPC), José Maria Costa, justified the decision with “the difficulty of means and the extent and seriousness of the situation” registered at Alto Minho, adding that with the activation of that plan “can be strengthened the means that would safeguard people and property.”
“we are experiencing a very critical situation,” he claimed, adding that the region is face “an exceptional situation.”
“there have been contacts with the Secretariat of State for Internal Affairs. We already have two to path reinforcement teams. Are being prepared aerial means for early Tuesday morning advanced.
enabling this plan means that you can ask an extraordinary support to the government
enabling this plan means that you can ask an extraordinary support to the government, which already it happened in the region. In August 2005 was triggered following a large number of forest fires simultaneously, for its duration, the burnt area and the risk posed to the population, especially in the municipalities of Viana do Castelo, Valencia, Paredes de Coura and Bridge Lima. At the time, the Santa Luzia hotel was evacuated, the capital of the Alto Minho.
The district commander CDOS of Viana do Castelo, Armando Silva, explained that “the district has many active instances, several large and have been going on for a few days “and that” are on the way two support groups and teams of Coimbra command posts and Bragança, “among others.
they are the way two support groups and teams of Coimbra command posts and Bragança
” what concerns us most are the fire Covas (Vila Nova de Cerveira) and Cabração (Ponte de Lima) that plow in a peri-urban forest interface that in is forcing the defense of many houses in several villages. the Cabração fire has entered the Viana do Castelo municipality, in Vilar Murteda and Meixedo, “said the one in charge.
the commander of CDOS also stressed the case hut parish Major in Arcos de Valdevez, adding that the fire” is to force a very tough combat environment saw. “
” it was necessary to evacuate some places and take people’s homes, “said Armando Silva, noting that” there are no injuries to register among the population “and that although” some “operational intoxicated with smoke “there is nothing serious to regret.”
According to Armando Silva “are in theater, some large over 570 operational”.
in the evening Monday, the Arcos de Valdevez municipality was the first of Viana do Castelo district to trigger the municipal emergency plan. At the time, told Lusa the councilor of the municipal civil protection Ponte da Barca, Olegario Gonçalves, said that the decision had been taken due to the “dramatic” situation that exists in the county, the scene of several fires.
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