Azores Situation Report Wednesday 26th June 2024
By our correspondent in the Azores
Fire brigades that helped fight the fire at HDES will be decorated
Praceta do Açor Arena, in Vila Franca do Campo, will host next Saturday, at 2:30 pm, the Portuguese Firefighters League Ceremony, organized by the Humanitarian Association of Volunteer Firefighters of Vila Franca do Campo, with the support of the Azores Firefighters Federation.
This ceremony will include the imposition of decorations to thank the five voluntary firefighters associations of São Miguel for their performance in fighting the fire that broke out on May 4th at the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo (HDES), in Ponta Delgada.
The ceremony will be presided over by the Regional Secretary for the Environment and Climate Action, Alonso Miguel, who oversees the Azores Regional Civil Protection and Fire Service (SRPCBA). The event will also be attended by the president of the Municipal Council of Vila Franca do Campo, Ricardo Rodrigues, the president of the League of Portuguese Firefighters, António Nunes, the president of the SRPCBA, Rui Andrade, and the president of the Azores Firefighters Federation, Braia Ferreira. The event will also be attended by the presidents of the firefighters associations of Ponta Delgada, Ribeira Grande, Vila Franca do Campo, Povoação, Nordeste and commanders of the respective bodies, in addition to the president of the League’s Congress Table, Luís Barreiros, and the Secretary of the League, Joaquim Mitra. The fire that broke out at HDES, on May 4th and forced the transfer of all patients who were admitted to this health unit. At the time, 333 patients were at HDES, and it was necessary to transfer 240. The most critical and serious patients were transferred to the CUF hospital, in the city of Lagoa, and the rest to health centres.
At this moment, the Ponta Delgada hospital is resuming its activity in a phased manner, and it is certain that the Regional Government intends for the modular hospital, within the HDES area (in the heliport area), to begin operating in the month of August, in an investment valued at around 10 million euros.
PJ arrests young man with 16 kilos of drugs on Terceira Island
A 19-year-old young man was detained by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on the island of Terceira, in the Azores, in possession of more than 16 kilos of drugs and was awaiting trial in pre-trial detention, it was revealed today.
According to the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of the Azores, the young man was arrested in flagrante delicto, due to “strong indications” of the crime of drug trafficking.
The source said in a statement that, at the time of his arrest, the suspect was in possession of “more than 16 kg of drugs, a quantity sufficient to prepare around 32,500 individual doses of hashish”.
The detainee was present at the first judicial interrogation and was subject to the coercion measure of preventive detention, indicated the PJ.
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