Summary Magazine 112 year 2018
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Fire of forest and grassland along the railway line
On 4 July 2018 at 10.35 hours the Ústí nad Labem Regional Operational and Information Centre announced an alert due to fire of grass and forest vegetation along the rail line between Ústí nad Labem and Lovosice. The intervention was difficult as the individual outbreaks of fire arose through the passage of a train in the total length of 14 km, and fire spread up to 3 km width, even in a steep, wooded terrain around the international railway corridor.
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TUNELY 2018
The TUNELY 2018 exercise on 15 May 2018 simulated a complicated railway accident on the 030 Liberec - Pardubice railway line in the so-called Říkovské Tunnels between the Semily and the Železný Brod railway stations. The accident site represented extraordinary complications in rail transport, heavily accessible terrain and. a large number of injured.
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Firefighters often provide first psychological help in traffic accidents
On 18 November 2018 we commemorate WRD, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, announced by the World Health Organization on the third Sunday of November each year. According to death statistics, the death during a traffic accident is among the world's top ten causes of death.
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Czech Championship of Rescue Dogs and Handlers
In the days of 7 to 9 September 2018, the Czech Republic Championship of Rescue Dogs and Handlers of the Integrated Rescue System (IRS) bodies took place in the Spáleniště u Přední Výtoně Canine Polygon, South Bohemia. This year championship was organised by the Union of Rescue Brigades of the Czech Republic Cynologists.
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New masters of extrication in traffic accidents
On 20 September 2018 the town of Chrudim, Eastern Bohemia, hosted the 9th Championship of FRS CR in rescue from traffic accidents. All competitors of the Regional FRS teams presented themselves at the Ressel Square, and demonstrated to everyone present the skill and professionalism of the extrication itself.
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Soft targets as socially significant objects
Soft targets protection is now discussed very much as a security theme. The term "soft targets" appears relatively newly in the international security environment, and in the Czech Republic was first delineated in the National Security Audit documents (December 2016), and in the Basics of Soft Targets Protection (June 2016) issued by the Ministry of the Interior, but appears in some older documents, too.
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Solutions to security measures
This year's Crisis Management Conference organized by the Faculty of Logistics and Crisis Management of the Tomas Bata University in Zlín took place on 13 and 14 September 2018 in Uherské Hradiště, Eastern Moravia. The program was focused on the latest knowledge of security issues, principles of crisis management, environmental safety, and risk analysis and their management at regional level, municipalities’ level, businesses or facilities.
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Theory, intervention practice, and crisis management
In the days of 17 to 18 October 2018, the Association of Company Fire Brigade Commanders organised their traditional, the 20th professional workshop and the 17th conference in the Horský hotel Sepetná in Ostravice, Northern Moravia.
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