The increase in fuel prices is severely affecting firefighter corps in Portugal. The corps face increased difficulties due to the high number of kilometers they travel daily in the exercise of their duties.
Bragança is presented as a concrete example of this reality. The local corps travels thousands of kilometers per day with its fleet, which means very high operational costs in a context of rising fuel prices.
Firefighters are thus confronted with an additional problem to their public service work, where the need to travel frequently significantly increases the operating costs of the corps.
