President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) signed a decree that deals with groups responsible for monitoring and coordinating actions to control and combat fires, after visiting areas hit by drought in Amazonas. Decree No. 12,173 defined the competencies of the National Committee for Integrated Fire Management and the Integrated Multi-Agency Center for Federal Operational Coordination (Ciman).
The National Committee for Integrated Fire Management will be responsible for carrying out consultative and deliberative coordination activities, proposing mechanisms for detecting and controlling forest fires, in addition to analyzing and monitoring demands relating to forest fires. The initiative aims to assist the National Integrated Fire Management Policy.
Ciman will monitor and coordinate actions to prevent, control and combat forest fires. And it will be responsible for checking the situation of the fires, as well as installing the situation room to monitor operations.
In August, the Federal Government proposed joint action initiatives to the governments of the states in the Legal Amazon to intensify fire control and prevention. Among the planned measures is the creation of inter-federative multi-agency fronts that will act in person to curb the fires.
The National Integrated Fire Management Committee will be composed of representatives from Ibama, ICMBio, civil society, the ministries of Environment and Climate Change, Agriculture and Livestock, Science, Technology and Innovation, among others.
Lula in the Amazon
The president visited communities affected by the drought in the municipalities of Manaquiri and Tefé, in Amazonas, last Tuesday (10). During the trip, .
In addition to the creation of firefighting committees, the head of the Executive detailed the investment of R$500 million in dredging interventions in rivers in the state of Amazonas, to facilitate navigation in the midst of drought.
In Amazonas, Lula also signed a service order for , which connects Amazonas to Rondônia. The value of the work is R$157.5 million. The section began to be built in 1968 and was never completed.
