Firefighter volunteers and activists against forest fires seek to issue a regulation for Law 449 and try to prevent officials appointed by politics from subordinating their work and on the contrary, they have the possibility of having their own equipment.
It is considered that the recent ruling of the agro -environmental courtwhich granted precautionary measures, so that the national and subnational authorities execute actions to stop forest fires, will help your requestsince in one of the articles of said resolution it is also requested to review the rules that regulate the work of firefighters, he explained Daniela Justiniano, representative of “Chiquitanas Alas”, in an interview with the Radio duty.
Fire Law No. 449, promulgated in 2013 “is biased” and favors only police firefighterssaid the fireman and lawyer, Alejandro Castillo, who promotes that the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP) approves a regulation for that rule, in order to protect this sector from political, administrative and operational manipulation.
The lawyer, who, together with his brother, Captain Álvaro Castillo, are part of the volunteer fire department, in the same interview, explained that another main aspect that is sought with the regulations is to have legal support to obtain equipment and supplies, to operate on their own against any fire, without depending on the police.
“We seek regulations for volunteer firefighters and Considering this resolution of the Agro -Environmental Court, we can legally link it To avoid what has just happened to us, That an authority on duty of the Vice Ministry of Citizen Security tried to prepare a regulation in such a way that we subordinated administratively and operationally to the police of the Police, ”said lawyer Castillo.
He explained that on several occasions and by different instances, they requested to be taken into account for the elaboration of the regulations, in order to form a technical table, since they are the direct affected, but all their observations were rejected.
“Luckily we have achieved, at least, to paralyze that intention of the bill,” said Castillo.
Breach
On the other hand, Justinian remarked that, although The Agro -Environmental Court already issued a 48 -hour conminatory, In order for subnational and national authorities to comply with precautionary measures, and even under the warning of being processed in the ordinary route, so far this was not complied with.
“(For forest fires) we are only with an emergency declaration at the departmental level, we are with a red alert nationwide and in this part more resources should be had to obviously attend to this emergency. Recall that, within one of the programs of El Duty, Vice Minister Juan Carlos Calvimontes has said that all the money were thrown, all the money of the CAF credit was spent, which were 75 million dollars, In floods, ”warned the activist.
