Around €1 million from national funds and more than half a million euros in European funds were invested in order to create new vehicles and equipment in case of natural disasters such as tsunamis on our shores or that of Sicily.
The Civil Protection Department will be modernising their fleet to address such real possibilities by buying four new vehicles. In total, the department had around six rescue vehicles which had been in use for well over 24 years.
With an investment of €600,000 from European funds, 3 SUVs, 2 transporters and other equipment was purchased in case tsunamis occurred in Malta or even in Sicily. Minister for National Security Byron Camilleri said that this year, there are €8 million to be used by the department to modernise their fleet.
He praised the government’s rate of investment in such new equipment, saying that they will keep working to modernise Malta’s search and rescue services.
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