“The summer we have money is more problematic than last year”/ Peleshi: There are no vacations for mayors and the Armed Forces

Pelesi also said that mayors and the armed forces will not have holidays and must remain on duty for any possible emergency.

Niko Peleshi: Po we enter the hot days of summer, even as warned, unfortunately it will be a summer as hot as last year, if not hotter with high temperatures. I use this opportunity to repeat the appeal in the first place to the communities and local units that are also responsible for maintaining and administering their territory.

It is very important that the municipality and the fire service signal in time because we often have it and from experience now that where the municipalities or local communities the elders are more attentive and more cooperative we do not have big fires because they are signaled in time, where they sleep of course then you know how the story ends when the flames take the mountain the helicopter is required. To heal the mentality that you need a helicopter to put out the flames, I appeal to all the mayors to be on top of their duties, there are no vacations for the mayors, especially those who are in the most threatened municipalities, there are no vacations for the Armed Forces either. Armed even for the Ministry of Defense.

When the possibilities of the municipalities are exhausted, without a doubt the Armed Forces, as always, are the decisive force. You mentioned 9 fires, three quarters of them have been put out with the interventions of the municipalities and our forces. At the moment, we have a serious outbreak in Kruja, where 60 forces from the Armed Forces have gone, they are working to cut a pretty long perimeter of the fire created by the wind. Hopefully it gets under control.

I don’t always want to refer to the municipalities because it seems like it takes away the responsibilities, the truth must be told, the FA are the last link if the municipal fire department exhausts your options, then the FA comes in. It can’t be like we’ve been used to until now.

Somewhere my word is heard by the mayors, somewhere it works better, someone listens more, I don’t want to say that there is no responsibility on the part of the municipalities, but only responsibility is not enough, organization is also needed, they should make daily meetings with the elders and villages, they sensitize, give you phone numbers, tell you how to be notified, have a monitoring service for areas with dense vegetation and signal more early and intervene in time. No fire gets large if the monitoring system works.

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