Interior Minister José Luis Carneiro admitted this Sunday in Pedrogan Grande that there were “congestion spikes” in the calls, but denied that SIRESP had failed to deal with the fires in Leiria.
“The SIRESP network has not gone down. We need to be extremely clear. There were bursts of overload. This means that there were more than half a million calls during that period, and the average wait time in relation to this spike was 3.20 seconds. a little over a minute. The network did not fail, we are talking about congestion with calls that were made at the same time and calls, above all, that lasted and therefore blocked the entrance of others to the system, “explained by the Minister of the Interior, José Luis Carneiro.
A socialist official spoke on the sidelines of the Pedrogan Grande Humanitarian Association of Volunteer Firefighters’ 75th anniversary celebrations in Leiria district, noting that, like the statements of the Secretary of State for Civil Protection, his statements are based on “information provided by the technical authorities” as they “may confirm technical questions.
“Political power cannot speak without technical support. It was on the basis of technical support that the Secretary of State spoke, and I speak myself,” he stressed.
When faced with the technical information being provided by one of the “interested parties”, José Luis Carneiro stated that “there is a record of all the calls and there is evidence of this record”.
The official also said that during the “congestion”, the National Emergency and Civil Defense Directorate decided to “mobilize two mobile communication units, one of which remained in Freiscianda.” [Ourém] and another in the Ansião fire brigade” to have a backup capable of ensuring that “all communications are in working order.”
“Funds have been mobilized to guarantee electrical backup so that if something happens, energy backup is also guaranteed,” he added.
The minister added that “sometimes the use [SIRESP] done within the time frame in which it should be.
Therefore, “training is still needed for the various users of SIRESP”.
“Nobody told me. I was in the theater of operations in Anciao. I accompanied the commanders in the field and they tried several times to communicate through SIRESP, but failed. It was possible to report the situation by mobile phone,” said Rui Rocha, president of the Leiria Firefighters Federation.
According to him, the commander of the fire brigade Alvayazere “recorded on the temporary tape the difficulties or impossibility of using this communication system.”
“What was said by the Secretary of State and the Minister does not reassure me. What we expect from a system like SIRESP, which is a system that needs to be available on standby, in an emergency and under heavy load, is that it works across many communications. “, he stressed.
Rui Rocha disagreed that those who “use SIRESP” “do not have enough training”. “That’s a little bold.”
The National Emergency Management and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC) explained that the SIRESP communication network had “one-off restrictions” during the fires in Leiria this month, which were quickly “fixed”.
“During the period when three major fires occurred in the Leiria region, ANEPC in the SIRESP network received reports of specific restrictions caused by network congestion due to poor network utilization and not related to any problem in the network. network structure. network,” ANEPC said in a message sent to Agência Lusa.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
