The Azores Regional Civil Protection and Fire Service (SRPCBA) is a department operating under the Regional Secretariat for Housing and Infrastructures with responsibility for overseeing, coordinating and supervising civil defence and fire service activities within the Autonomous Region of the Azores. It is also responsible for the emergency medical land transport system, ensuring prompt and appropriate medical care for victims of accidents or sudden emergencies.

In launching this page we therefore aim to provide further information on the organisational structure of the SRPCBA or, in other words, its organisations and services, in addition to weather and earthquake alerts and other items of information for citizens.

Finally, we hope that this page will come to represent a forum for discussion of the subjects it covers and that your comments and suggestions will contribute towards improving the work of the SRPCBA, for the benefit of all citizens.