The Secretary General of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoubas He visited the Caesarean fire at the entrance of Ymittos on Friday afternoon, on the occasion of the start of this year’s firefighting season, where he discussed with members of the Volunteer Forest Protection Team of the Municipality of Kaisariani.
D. Koutsouba was welcomed by the Mayor of Kaisariani, Elias Stamelos. Members of the volunteer team, which is completing 40 years of operation and offer this year, have conveyed to D. Koutsouba the problems they face in their work, “such as the lack of permanent provision and maintenance of equipment, vehicles and means of protection”.
“The equipment we have secured with struggles and claims,” said Sakis Exarchopoulos, from the founding members of the volunteer team, while Michalis Georgaros, also a member of the team, referred to “bureaucratic barriers to the Ministry of Civil Protection, From disorganization, as he said, volunteers were discouraged. “
D. Koutsoubas made the following intervention: “I would like from a heart depth to honestly express our gratitude and to point out the huge offer you give to this city here, to the heroic Caesarean who has passed the Pandinia, but mainly I would say, but also for the wider area, for the whole of Attica. Because the lung here, you may touch you, because your homes are here, you grew up here, you live here, but Ymittos, the protection of the forest, the protection of the environment concerns the whole region, all of Attica, all of Greece. “
“And of course the fact that you are volunteers, that you use leisure time, the least you have from your jobs, so that you can protect the environment, to protect your fellow humans, the city, the county, is very big, it is a lesson, it works for the whole Greek society, The volunteer team here in Caesarea may have 40 years, they are here the oldest fighters who have participated and laid the foundations of this work with our historic Mayor, Comrade Panagiotis Makris, but you are the followers and so you must continue, because our children who come.
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“But no matter how much you fight, no matter how much the city council and the mass bodies of the city and beyond, the problem is not solved, because here we have to put the government and today’s responsibilities, of course, as long as they are the previous ones, that they did not take all those drastic measures, that they did not take all those drastic measures, This wealth that Greece has, which is forest wealth, is the environment. But on the contrary, all of them did what they were going through and the current government to depreciate the Fire Brigade, reduce staff, substantially dismantle forest services, and all the Greek people know. And every time they run back. Instead of being a primary issue, prevention, before evil, before the fire occurs, then runs after gathering the unmarried and sending the messages to run people to be saved and not having other dead, as we had in Eye or elsewhere. While the problem is that all the fireplace planning must serve the citizen, serve the protection of popular property, life, but also the environment, the protection of the forest, this is the essence, ”he noted.
“Unfortunately, the fireplace, this minimum that exists, does not serve these tasks. And of course we are fighting, recently we have even asked the House again, we are pushing in every direction. Even now it is brave funding, because there is money from the taxation they have raised, ”D. Koutsoubas said, saying:
“They may have given 0.6%, but out of the other 70 billion taxes, they all go either for equipment or give it to some groups, that is, their profits, and the investments they make are in their own interests and not for the popular interests. And all the rest, such as the protection of the forest in the summer, the protection of people’s property stay at the mercy of weather and the famous climate change, as if they discovered America, talking about climate change, as if we do not know what is happening here on the whole planet here and here. Every year we live, so the question is how you predict, how you plan, how you take measures as well as you also make infrastructure anti -corrosive, flood -reflections to hold on to this situation and not to religion new victims with floods after the fires.
“All this is a package of measures, which we say had to be taken yesterday, but even today, even at least at least this road to open. That is why we are fighting it and that is why we are here today, to raise this issue. Along with the great bid, the solidarity, which you give to this place here and to your fellow humans, to highlight the great problem of forest protection, fire protection, the necessary measures that the state, the government, the region needs to take, and all those responsible for them, so that we People’s possessions, ”D. Koutsoubas concluded in his speech.