Beka: Firefighters everywhere are treated as heroes, we are left under no one's mercy

Unresolved status, non-defining management competencies, negligence of institutions are just some of the problems firefighters in Kosovo are facing.

So said in an interview for Front Online, the head of the Kosovo Firefighter Union, Muharrem Beka.

However, he also mentions not paying risk, changing night, and other payments.

 “Since an official e-mail I have from the Interior Minister's cabinet all requests that have been in 2022 at the beginning of the year will be realized, I wrote you, no official response have been received, nor are they called on the phone, nor do they return their e-mails, and their silence has a negative sense and this state of fireman has reflected, has raised concerns, raised their frustrations, and their voice is that, however, this state of silence is not going to go off in the 111x>

And if at least some of them are not given answers by the end of August, firefighters are warning protests.

We will address the government with the paperwork, but if we don't get satisfactory answers the protest will be inevitable”, Beka said.

Beka says that firefighters are in a poor, affordable state, and that this situation according to him has lasted a long time.

As long as she adds, that despite the problems nobody has to deal with, and that Beka's firefighters have remained at no one's mercy and without institutional support.

He even mentions the challenges they are facing.

“The main challenge, the cruise problem is the issue of unselected status, the failure to define management competencies between the local government and the central level, in this case the AME, the MPB and the municipality because, as the opinion firefighters know, the wages they receive from municipalities and by law are ministry staff de when it comes to questioning rights, the benefits they meet even with laws, then comes the neglect of institutions that no one takes on as employers to carry out these commitments. The AME says you go to the municipality, the municipality says you are ministry staff go to AME means there is a planned budget for Kosovo firefighters”, Beka added it.

 Beka: There are about 800 firefighters in Kosovo, we need 400 more

Kosovo Fireship Union Chairman Muharrem Beka has told Front Onlini that they are also facing lack of staff.

He claims they need at least 400 more firefighters.

The current number of firefighters is approximately 800 plus, minus because some retire, but the total lack of at least 400 firefighters. The criteria are that at 1500 people should be covered by a fireman. All municipalities are lacking, average age is approximately 50 years, without systematic control, no health insurance, no compensation for the night shift, the holidays, the overtime, so I said it earlier except salary nothing. is he expressing himself.

Fire Chief Union: We've left institutions without knocking, no one handles us.

Firefighters are also facing default for risk.

That's what Front Online, Fire Union Chairman Muharrem Beka said.

“Even now recently and the risk is not being offset, so this situation has made firemen really worried about their situation and we are obliged to express their voice and the situation we are in, we will absolutely be obliged to raise voices and express disappointment with the protest body that the single firefighters demand”, has declared Beka for Front Online.

He says they have not left institutions without knocking, but that no one is dealing with them.

“We have addressed institutions, we have directed to the Government of Kosovo, that at least urgently cease those discriminations that are rightfully due to you and then, step by step, become the status solution, the fire department is being drafted but is delayed. Firefighters even in 2024 will be left without a budget, and indeed this situation created when we left the institution without knocking, and we haven't left the door without knocking and no one has to deal with this issue that's pointless”, Beka has expressed herself.

As for the surplus risk, he says he has sought answers to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but that he has not received one so far.

We didn't get any information, I directed you with paperwork, I didn't get any answers. I've been calling them, too. The ministers of the MPB, with the minister I've contacted me, has told me to head in. The minister because I'm busy with the situation in the north, I've sent you official emails, I've sent calls, we haven't got a response, He added it.

According to him, firefighters are also facing a lack of equipment and that their situation is unstable.

Beka: In the Law of Salaries, we've asked to level with the police.

The head of the Kosovo Firework Union, Muharrem Beka, in an interview with Front Online has said they have had dissatisfaction with the peace law.

He, he claims, has sought to be levelled with the Kosovo Police in terms of the coefytor.

“The cofficient issue is set for firemen 5, then according to function the leader of the group to the commander, but I'm saying that the overwhelming staff is operational. Firefighters are co-ficiency five, while the policeman is 5.9 as he does 3 years, while the fireman remains there. This disappointment has been, the question of risklessness we've asked for, and I believe that now at the end of this month or at the end of September I will decide the commission and split it up according to the risk of”, She has declared Beka.

 Muharrem Beka: Firefighters everywhere are treated as heroes, we are left under no one's mercy

The fireman in each country is treated as heroes, while we have remained at no one's mercy”.

So said Front Online, Fire Union Chairman Muharrem Beka.

Beka has also had an appeal for the country's government.

“It is the last moment, I am appealing to the Government of Kosovo, the relevant ministries, the MF, the MPB, and the Association of Kosovo municipalities to harmonise attitudes, to co-ordinate actions so that this situation is not so hopeless, and it is really surprising what the Kosovo firefighters are in. Firefighters everywhere are treated as heroes, but with us it's a meaningless situation and I can't understand how it's possible after 12 years of 2011 when they've crossed the central level, we're stuck with no one, no minister or municipality. This situation cannot continue”, has declared Beka.

He, he says he has pressure from fire associations to organise protests.

I have tremendous pressure from fire associations to organise a protest. We'll ask, we'll give you a date and if they don't reflect protests it'll be inevitable, because they've lost patience, they're running out of options for dialogue and I don't know what to say to”, Beka said.

Fire Chief both show which countries faced fires

Kosovo Fire Chief Editor Muharrem Beka has also talked about fires that have occurred in the country as a result of high temperatures.

“ka has since nearly all countries -- Suhareka, Pristina, Vushtrria, Podujevo -- so all municipalities are behind. The nature of the fires was a field, most of them were field fires except one case that was in Kline, others were field fires from carelessness and neglect because field workers collect waste, light it up, and then it's coming out of control, and that's because of a factor of a man”Beka said. /Front Online