“The ministers of Internal Administration, National Defense, Environment and Climate Change, Agriculture and Food and Health decided to proceed with the declaration of the contingency situation, which will be in force between the 11th and 15th of July […]. This means that we have preventive conditions so that we can automatically and preventively activate all emergency and civil protection plans at all territorial levels”, said José Luís Carneiro.
Government declares state of contingency
The Government has decided to declare a state of contingency between Monday and Friday, allowing Civil Protection to mobilise “all the means available to the country” to fight the fires.
By TPN/Lusa, in News, Portugal · 10 Jul 2022, 06:16 · 0 Comments