Summary Magazine 112 year 2020
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In 2019 firefighters dealt with the safety of electric cars and escape games
The traditional Balance Press Conference of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic for 2019 took place in the seat of MoI-DG FRS CR in Prague on 7 January 2020. The chief fire officers evaluated activities of FRS CR in the past year and informed Czech media representatives.
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Accident of a cargo train with limestone
By a direct witness of the accident calling on the 112 emergency line, the intervention at the biggest railway accident in the history of the independent Karlovy Vary Region began at 16.42 on Sunday 28 July 2019. The freight train with limestone cargo derailed, and the important railway line was interrupted for a number of weeks, but the incident did without injury.
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Extrication a person from the well
On Saturday 3 August 2019 at 12.26, the Operational and Information Centre of the Fire Rescue Service of the South Moravian Region received a declaration of a person trapped in a well of a house in Velké Pavlovice. The incident was reported by the mother of an overwhelmed person, according to the initial information, her adult son has fallen down into a well ten meters deep.
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Are bio-fireplaces safe?
In recent years, the offer of modern home decoration - biofuel fireplaces (bio-fireplaces) on market has expanded. Their higher sale and use was initially prevented by a higher price, but this is no longer the case. Bio-fireplaces manufactured by various manufacturers are also supplied by many e-shops, and often imported from abroad.
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Ethical dimension of crisis intervention
Does thinking about good and evil belong to our daily lives? Or is ethics only a discipline detached from the reality of life, which belongs to professional books? That was a topic of the 18th International Crisis Intervention Days conference, held from 27 to 28 September 2019 and organized by the Austrian Red Cross and the University of Innsbruck.
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Material humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina
The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has asked the Czech Republic for help in coping with another wave of refugee migration. Mr. Jan Hamáček, the Minister of the Interior, has therefore authorized the Ministry of Interior-General Directorate of Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic to organize humanitarian aid to this Balkan country.
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Evacuation of specialized medical facility
On Tuesday 28 May 2019 at 7 pm, a tactical exercise focused on building evacuation began in the B. Braun Avitum pavilion at the Bulovka Hospital in Prague. The theme of the exercise was a simulated fire caused by failure of a kettle in the kitchen on the third floor of the Dialysis Center.
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New Japanese protective mask on the Czech market
In 2017 the Japanese protective mask Shigematsu GXo2 appeared on the Czech market. It was launched by the Czech company CleanAir Jablonec nad Nisou, which closely cooperates with the Shigematsu Company and supplies filter-ventilation units to protective masks.
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