The Portuguese Interior Minister, José Luís Carneiro, announced the dispatch of a team of 140 firefighters to help fight the deadly forest fires that are raging in central-southern Chile.
The two countries have helped each other in the past, when Chilean firefighters battled fires in central Portugal in 2006, for which the European country has traditionally felt a “debt of gratitude.”
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Minister Carneiro said today: “We have already communicated to the European Civil Protection Mechanism our availability of resources.”
Portugal is now waiting for an “expression of preparation and welcome from the Chilean authorities, so that these media can mobilize.” The head of the Interior Administration also took the opportunity to send “a message of solidarity for the death of civilians, as well as firefighters who have faced these fires in Chile in very difficult circumstances.”
