Africa-Press – Cape verde. The municipality of São Filipe no Fogo may have a semi-professional fire brigade in 2023, announced today the mayor, Nuías Silva, at the end of a firefighter training.
The Municipality of São Filipe promises to make “an effort” to move from a monthly bonus to a salary regime and semi-professionalize the municipality’s fire department.
“We are still unable, it is not for lack of will, to guarantee a professional body, even in terms of equipment, but we can have, from 2023, a semi-professional regime with permanence and develop a concept of a fire station”, he concluded. the mayor.
“Regardless of government support, the chamber will improve the salary conditions of firefighters. As it is, it cannot continue next year”, declared Nuías Silva.
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The city council stated that the council that he directs is already making a “huge effort” to pay the gratuities, since it is the only one in the region that gives monthly gratuities, having started with a call-to-reference regime, moving to gratuities, and from next year, to the salary scheme and in the future to a professional scheme.
Nuías Silva also advanced that a cadre of firefighters will be established, while others will be able to perform other functions, and that until the end of the mandate he intends to work on the inspection issue in a single body, later evolving into a municipal police body.
The mayor of São Filipe also announced the availability to the Civil Protection Service of an eight-meter vessel capable of traveling to Brava Island and the Ilhéus.
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