Seasonal firefighters seized the Climate Crisis Ministry: “Destructions are not seasonal”

They occupied the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection today (31.10.2024) from all over Greece, asking Minister Vasilis Kikilia to legalize them. With the main slogan “destructions are not seasonal”, seasonal firefighters “bunk” inside the ministry also claiming a meeting with the minister. At the point there is a large police force without so far causing any tension and protesters are going to spend the night in tents outside the ministry all night. Seasonal firefighters protest the non-renewal of their conventions and seek their permanentisation. “I will hold a meeting with firefighters” Vassilis Kikilias because of the mobilisation of seasonal firefighters, announced that next week he will meet with them to discuss their demands. “As I had pledged, after the end of the fire brigade I will hold a meeting with the representatives of seasonal-contracted firefighters. And that’s what I’ll do next Wednesday, 6/11. At the meeting we will discuss in detail their needs, concerns and concerns, before we proceed to the competition, within the framework of Presidential Decree 36/2019, which as everyone knows, was passed in 2019 by the SYRIZA government,” the minister said. In 2024 700 forestcomados were hired and 300 more will be hired for 2025. In this way, they will be hired as a forest bearer 1,340 from the “tank” of 2,500 seasonal firefighters, according to sources of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, 830 recruitments will be made this year. In 2019 the New Republic government received about 13,100 firefighters, with the most force of the Fire Corps being 14,700. New recruitments in 2025 will exceed 15,500 and with 2,500 seasonals they will eventually reach 18,000 firefighters in the next anti-fire period, according to the same sources. Photos Eurokinissi – MICHALIS KARAYANNIS