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International missions

The FEPC has full capabilities to not just intervene in protection and relief in Portugal, but, when necessary, be deployed to international initiatives, both in emergency situations and for training. 

A few missions have been carried out outside Portugal, of which we note the following:

 

2008

  • São Tomé e Príncipe (Firefighters training)

2009

  • Sardinia – Itália (Wildfires fighting exercise)
  • Mozambique (Firefighters training)

2010

  • Madeira Island (Protection and relief operations due to adverse weather conditions)
  • Mozambique (Firefighters training)
  • Haiti (Humanitarian aid mission)

2011

  • Guiné-Bissau (Firefighters training)

2012

  • Madeira Island (Wildfires fighting mission)
  • Spain and France (Exercise "EU RICHTER 2012")
  • Mozambique (Firefighters training)

2013

  • Mozambique (Firefighters training)

2015

  • Spain (Wildfires fighting mission)

2016

  • Madeira Island (Wildfires fighting mission)

2017

  • Chile (Wildfires fighting mission)

2018

  • Algeria (Exercise "ALSEIMEEX")
  • Madeira Island (Initial strike heliborne teams training)

2019

  • Mozambique (Humanitarian aid mission)
  • Madeira Island (Initial strike heliborne teams training)

2021

  • (Exercise "EU LUSITÂNIA VREX 2021")

2023

  • Chile (Wildfires fighting mission)