The Liga dos Bombeiros Portugueses wants a programme contract to replace the formula that funds volunteer brigades, which it calls uncertain, even after the minister promised a rise of more than 5 percent on this year's 37 million euros.
A cyberattack on the national firefighter register copied names, ID, tax, social security and health numbers, addresses and blood groups, according to the civil protection authority. The application is suspended and firefighters are told to watch for scams.
Companies that carry about half of the SNS's non-urgent patient journeys say the October fuel decree helps taxis, fire brigades and charities but not them, and are weighing a slow-drive protest in Lisbon. What the law says about who gets free transport, and who to call if it fails.
The President has promulgated a 38 million euro decree for hauliers, bus operators, taxis, fire brigades and the social sector. Two firefighters' federations said in September that the spring round had not reached them.
From Thursday every fire brigade has a protocol with the INEM for a round-the-clock emergency ambulance. Each is paid 10,800 euros a month, and the brigades' associations ran a 125.6 million euro deficit in 2024.
The Médio Tejo sub-regional emergency and civil-protection command activates three additional firefighting teams and 15 extra personnel from Tuesday, 16 June, in a stepped-up posture that runs into the DECIR Delta (Dispositivo Especial de Combate a...
The Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (INEM, National Institute of Medical Emergency) closed 2025 with a €7.6 million negative result , a second consecutive year of red ink and a more than twenty-fold deterioration on the €340,000 loss booked...
