Summary Magazine 112 year 2016
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
CFO visited the Olomouc Region
Major General Drahoslav Ryba, Director General of the FRS CR, continued his visits in regions to become personally acquainted with the most pressing problems of the regional FRSs. During his visits to meet with the leadership of FRS, with the rank and file firefighters at stations as well as with representatives of volunteer firefighters. This year it is already the ninth visit. s. 5
Fire of the sports equipment store in Kopřivnice
The third stage of fire alarm requested a fire in a shopping centre in Kopřivnice, Moravia, on Sunday 25th September this year. Previously announced fire of waste turned into an intervention for nearly twenty hours, which employed 95 firefighters from 17 fire units, and also other bodies of the Integrated Rescue System. First arriving fire units saw thick smoke and flames coming from the building which signalled that the fire spread to the roof. s. 6
Firefighters’ collaboration with the Prison Service
Currently, more than 22,000 men and women are imprisoned behind the gates of prisons in the Czech Republic, supervised by members of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic, who in case of e.g. a fire must be able to resolve the situation. However, a prison building has no free escape routes. Arrival of a fire engine to a fire in a prison building may not be entirely straightforward, and an intervention of firefighters or medics in contact with the imprisoned also has its own specifics. s. 9
XVR simulation program for teaching in the Brno Fire School
As a simulation we can understand some mimic of a certain real thing, state, process or event. Nowadays simulation goes mostly through a computer technology. So called computer simulation has become an integral part of many fields of human activity. s. 12
Experience of representatives of helping professions
The 6th AWHP Conference (Aspects of Work of Helping Professions) was held on 7th October this year in the Medical House in Prague. The conference focused on the issue of humanitarian aspects of crisis situations and emergencies was organized by the Department of Health Professions and Population Protection of the Biomedical Engineering Faculty of ČVUT, the Czech Technical University in Prague. s. 20
CBRN workshop at the FFF 2016 conference
The international exhibition and technical conference entitled Future Forces Forum 2016 (FFF 2016), the most important event in the field of defence and security in the Czech Republic, was held in the days of 17 to 21 October 2016 at the PVA EXPO PRAGUE exhibition ground. The Forum had the subtitle "Better Security = Better Future". s. 25
Volunteer firefighters and their mayor
The situation of volunteer firefighters discussed Major General Drahoslav Ryba, Director General of the Fire α Rescue Service of the Czech Republic (FRS CR), and Karel Richter, Mayor of the Association of Firefighters of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (SH ČMS), with Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Milan Chovanec, Minister of the Interior, who visited the SH ČMS headquarters in June this year. s. 26
Medals and plaques of FRS CR awarded
Medals and plaques of FRS CR were awarded on the occasion of the national holiday Day of the independent Czechoslovak state. Major General Drahoslav Ryba, Director General of the Fire α Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, gave the awards to selected members of FRS CR and certain citizens of the Czech Republic, on 25th October 2016 in the Troja Castle in Prague. s. 28