ZAP
Since the appointment of the current command, 10 firefighters working for the association have resigned in disagreement with the commander
Twenty-five of 68 firemen of the active staff of the corporation Areosa/Rio Tinto presented the request to move to the reserva, Today, volunteers in disagreement with the commander Marco Martins.
According to the statement, the position taken on December 28 follows the placement of helmets on the ground occurred on December 22nd by volunteer firefighters, noting that the request to move to reserve “did not lead to any action by the command.”
Moving into reserve means that stop providing service in that corporation despite his name being listed as volunteers in that barracks.
“Since the appointment of the current command, 10 firefighters association employees resigned in disagreement with the commander. Others who remain have expressed their intention to do so”, reads the press release.
According to the signatories of the statement, these are “firefighters with many years of experience and with a lot of technical expertise in training suits”.
For the signatories, “this significant loss of human resources, 25 firefighters out of 68 active personnel (37%), cause irreparable damage in the corporation’s staff and places serious constraints on the firefighters’ daily commitments, particularly in helping the population of Rio Tinto and Baguim do Monte”, making the commander responsible for maintaining the corporation’s good operational functioning.
Finally, firefighters in the reserve warn that this is “a limit situation” and guarantee that “they do not want to stop the aid”, but “just dignity in the task they perform, which they do not find in the current commander”.
Lusa tried to react from the commander and former mayor of Gondomar, Marco Martins, but so far it has not been possible.
