The Regional Executive Board allocated 50 million € for the Civil protection system and for the prevention of natural risks. It will fund the purchase of means and equipment for the regional rapid response department of the Civilian Protection Agency, of the Fire Brigades, of the Municipal groups and the voluntary associations of civil protection. The allocation will also enlarge the Meteorological-Hydrological Information System monitoring network of the functional Centre to prevent floods and landslides, as well as the ICT of the operations room.

Regional Minister for Civil Protection Ermanno Russo stated: “These actions on infrastructure will allow local watching systems to work properly to prevent hydrogeological and flood risk, and will be also available for any local emergency planning. Concerning the purchase of means, cooperation with the Regional Direction of the National Fire Brigades for emergency actions goes on. These resources will allow to buy means of transportation for the fire fighters to extinguish special waste burnings that pollute the so-called “Terra dei Fuochi”. This resolution completes the intervention framework for the strengthening of the regional civil protection system for the use of resources under the Regional Operational Programme (POR) for the period 2007-2013”.

Regional Director of the Campania Fire Brigades Guido Parisi was very satisfied with this result for “the renewed cooperation and institutional synergy with Regione Campania in the Civil Protection service, to back those investments implemented and those planned, in the name of the new agreement approved by the Regional Executive Board, which are well made in a structure such as the National Corps of Fire Brigades that has always been guaranteeing a ready and effective response to many needs concerning Help and Civil Protection, as showed during the several emergencies that have affected the Campania region over the last years. Particularly, these regional funds will support the enhancement of the Regional rapid response department and the fleet of fire service vehicles aimed at specific risks existing among the provinces of the region, as well as amphibious and heavy-duties vehicles for earthwork operations and for possible floods and hydrogeological instability- related events. This is why the understanding sets forth also a further cooperation in the emergency planning activity, as well as the possibility to settle units with the various departments involved in the Civil Protection activity, to confirm that the combination of multiple forces ensures a higher level of both preventive and emergency response action.