Forest Brigades (Brifor) renews its fleet of vehicles to fight against fires foresters with six pumping trucks, that the Cabildo presented this Tuesday in Güímar. With an individual cost of 303,490 euros, the global investment amounts to 1,820,940. The island president, Rosa Davila, and the Minister of the Natural Environment, Blanca Pérez, highlighted the importance of constant modernization in this task. More when an alert episode for high temperatures is announced starting tomorrow.
Natural Environment, Sustainable Development and Security acquired trucks to transport personnel and others dedicated to extinction. The contract was awarded to the company Iturri SA.
«These vehicles join the park of the forestry brigades (Brifor) of the Island that is obsolete,” Dávila and Pérez pointed out. They assessed that «the maintenance of those who already made up the fleet was unsustainable; they had to be given more capacity and renewed.”
It is expected that in the next three years the Cabildo de Tenerife renew the fleet through the acquisition of 15 pumper trucks with three types: heavy rural whose capacity is 1,700 liters; heavy rural 3,500 and heavy wet nurses for 10,000 liters.
A good part of the presentation of the vehicles resulted in the requirement of the “maximum precaution” in view of the weather forecasts that envision, for the next few days, a powerful heat wave. The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, made an appeal to the population to exercise extreme caution in the face of the episode of high temperatures, which will affect the island starting tomorrow and will last for several days.
“On Thursday we will evaluate the situation to determine the measures to be taken, but until then we must ask the public to remain attentive to the notifications and restrictive measures of the Cabildo that may derive from the forecast.” Besides, Rosa Dávila insisted that “they carefully follow all the recommendations of the administrations and the restrictions that may occur in terms of traffic on the trails and roads of Tenerife.”
Before the episode of high temperatures, it is recommended to take extreme precautions throughout the island territory, reduce any activity that could generate fires –tobacco, use of generators, electrical and pyrotechnic equipment, etc.– and be attentive to the information that is issued on the next few days by the Island Corporation or 112 Canary Islands.
