The Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, held a working group with departmental delegates from the official and volunteer fire brigades that exist in the country, where They agreed to hold technical tables to address different institutional needs.operational and functioning of these relief organizations.
“Every year since the Fire Law was passed, it should have been approved, in addition to the resources that are collected for a rate that Colombians pay when they buy insurance, $25 billion should have been given to them since 2012 and then indexed year after year and they were never He delivered. That is a debt owed by other governments, but we are willing to save that word and update it. In the Council of Ministers I will bring that proposal that allows us to pay off this historic debt,” explained the Minister of the Interior.
At the same time, proposed to address each of the problems that arise with firefighters in their territories in order to find solutions that improve their actions and response for the benefit of their communities and fundamentally to preserve their integrity in the exercise of their profession and trade. “In the framework of the dialogue with the regional delegates from each of the places in the country, we have identified a series of actions that we believe can provide better care for the entire population,” he assured.
The Minister praised the work carried out by the country’s 20,000 firefighters at this time in the different units, to counteract and extinguish fires caused by high temperatures as a result of the El Niño phenomenon.