Morelia, Michoacán.- The firemen of Apatzingan demand improvements in their working conditions, exhibited unworthy facilities for people who work in the Municipal Civil Protection area.
Some bed bases without a mattress, under a roof with «plastic bag walls», a table to put two jugs of water, an electric stove with two grills, a dining room with two tables with crooked chairs and a small refrigerator, are some of the belongings that are in the firefighters den.
Yesterday they took over the facilities of the Apatzingan City Hall to demand that the mayor improve the working conditions of municipal firefightersthis morning the mayor Jose Luis Cruz Lucatero reported that periodically they are provided with equipment to carry out their work, as well as other supplies.
Given this, the firefighters showed through the social networks of Municipal Civil Protection some images of the current state of the uniforms with which they work, which can be seen quite worn.
Yesterday afternoon there was a fire in the municipal yard, where the firefighting fleet went to try to put out the fire. Of the work and tasks performed Some firefighters were injured and two more were intoxicated.
The affected firefighters went to the facilities of the ISSSTE where they were denied the emergency medical servicefor which they had to be transferred to the Regional Hospital, where, as indicated by the same firefighters, in said hospital they lack materials for the care of the intoxication they presented.
“Elements of our Municipal Coordination of Civil Protection and Firefighters of Apatzingán are admitted to the regional hospital for serious intoxication after putting out the fire previously treated in the corralón.
It is worth mentioning that medical attention was denied to our elements at the ISSSTE and we had to move urgently, they were received at the Regional Hospital, but it does not have material to attend to our elements either.
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How sad to see that despite the low salary that the elements have, every fortnight $300 and so many pesos are deducted from each element for a deplorable medical service that when they need it they are denied medical attention” accused Civil Protection workers on social networks.
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