Forest fire expert Domingos Xavier Viegas pointed out today flaws in the Rural Fire Integrated Management Agency, considering that it erred in separating civil protection from forestry services and in “not paying attention” to the firefighters. “I believe that the AGIF [Rural Fire Integrated Management Agency] has had and still has an important role, but it also has some flaws (…). When the AGIF defines a strategy based on a segmentation of rural fires, separation between civil protection and forestry services, I believe that a strategic error was made here and that it is at the root of some of the flaws,” said the director of the Forest Fire Studies Center at the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) into the business of forest fires. To the deputies, the researcher pointed out that “another problem of the AGIF was proposing goals that it did not meet, arguing that “it is very important”, when defining objectives, “to see what really depends on human activity and what depends on ...