VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOREST AREA NAVASFRIAS
The Salamanca Provincial Council will install six new chambers of video surveillance in forest zonass from the province, specifically in the municipal terms of Navasfrías, Villar de Ciervo and Vilvestre, for the purpose of fighting fires in the area near the border with Portugal.
As explained by the president of the provincial institution, Javier Iglesias, It is about having "a more exhaustive control" and the possibility of "a faster response" in the event of an emergency situation in these areas., far from large urban centers.
The acquisition and placement of these devices are part of the European project 'Biofrontera II‘, which has an execution period until the end of 2021 and that will also allow the purchase of five new specific vehicles for fire fighting.
Specifically, for "increase responsiveness“, the Salamanca Provincial Council will acquire a heavy rural fire engine, two height work vehicles, a rapid intervention vehicle and a release team.
Accompanied by the Deputy for the Environment, Roman Hernandez, the president of the provincial institution has explained that ‘Biofrontera II’ also has Portuguese public entities, who will be able to buy similar video surveillance systems, that will control the other side of the border and that will also benefit Salamanca due to its proximity.
This project is carried out in collaboration with the Portuguese partners of the Association of Municipalities of Cova da Beira and with the Nature and Man Foundation, that will receive European Feder funds in the Interreg modality, specifically through the Poctep line.
INVESTMENT
The total investment in the initiative is 1.410.161 euros, financed to 75 percent for Europe and the 25 remaining percent in charge of participating partners. Así, the Salamanca Provincial Council -the most benefited- will receive 622.346 euros, de los 829.795 project euros.
On the other hand, the Association of Municipalities Cova da Beira will have 99.999 euros of European funds of the total cost of your share of 133.333 euros; and the Nature and Man Foundation is assigned 335.274 euros of 447.033 of the total.
‘Biofrontera II’ is the second phase of a project that has already been carried out in the same area and that allowed, for example, that the province of Salamanca has video surveillance systems in its forest mass in the terms of Villarino, La Fregeneda and El Payo.
