Proposal to coordinate and regulate fire services across Spain

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1. The bill would organize the Fire Prevention, Suppression and Rescue Services (SPEISSPEIS Spanish acronym for Fire Prevention, Suppression and Rescue Services: the fire services.), known as fire services, across the country, and set basic criteria to coordinate them. Today no such common framework exists, even though a 1985 law already called for a specific statute.
2. Fire services would have to be free and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A charge would only be possible if someone requests the service in bad faith or through serious negligence.
3. Operational staff of the SPEIS would be career civil servants and would have the status of authority agents while on duty or responding to an emergency, anywhere in the country.
4. Two coordination bodies would be created: the Dirección General de Bomberos, under the Ministry of the Interior, and a State Commission for the Coordination of the SPEIS with representation from autonomous communities, municipalities, unions and other services.
5. Operational staff would be entitled to life insurance and civil liability insurance, legal defense paid by the administration, and could move to a 'second activity' status if their physical or mental capacity declines, with adapted duties and no loss of pay.
6. The Government would have to create the new bodies within one year, send Parliament a Basic Statute for Firefighters within six months, and create an autonomous body for airport fire services within two years.

Who it affects

• Fire services and their staff: For the first time they would have a common nationwide framework: naming, duties, training, uniforms and working conditions.
• Municipalities with over 20,000 residents: They would have to keep guaranteeing fire suppression services, delivered directly and by career civil servants.
• Autonomous communities: They would have to adapt their fire service rules to this law within a maximum of two years.
• The Ministry of the Interior: It would have to create the Dirección General de Bomberos and the State Coordination Commission, and lead nationwide coordination.
• The general public: People would have a free, permanent and more uniform fire service across the whole territory.

Words worth knowing

SPEIS

Spanish acronym for Fire Prevention, Suppression and Rescue Services: the fire services.

Funcionario de carrera

Career civil servant: a public employee who passed competitive exams and has a permanent post, not a temporary one.

Agente de la autoridad

Authority agent: a person whose orders and reports have legal force while on duty, as with the police.

Segunda actividad

Second activity: a status in which a firefighter no longer in full physical shape moves to adapted duties, without a pay cut.

Isócronas

Isochrones: areas reachable from a fire station within a set time; used to decide where to locate stations.

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