Summary Magazine 112 year 2022
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A fire in a straw house
Buildings built in a non-traditional way using non-traditional materials have been appearing in the territory of the Czech Republic for several years now. These buildings are also at risk of fire. In this issue, we present an analysis of the house fire, the perimeter walls of which were made of wooden load-bearing structures and filled with a thick layer of biological straw. The fire occurred as a result of careless handling of tung oil, which the owner used to impregnate the floors inside the house. The intervention was complicated by the location of the house on a slope, the proximity of forest and high summer temperatures. The straw in the perimeter walls was re-igniting. The damage was estimated at 6 million CZK.
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What was behind the success of the firefighters-climbers at the Grimpday 2022 international competition?
At the beginning of September this year, a prestigious international competition of rope rescue teams from all over the world took place in the Belgian city of Namur. The Czech team won an excellent 5th place at the competition. Capt. Tomáš Saifrt, head of the Training centre of the Fire Rescue Service in Velké Poříčí, who participated in the competition, summarized in an interesting interview how much hard work was behind the excellent placement. The competition took place in non-traditional locations - an amusement park, a museum, the main train station or a flooded quarry and military training area.
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49th meeting of the Directors-General for civil protection of the Member States and the Participating States to the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, the European Economic Area and candidate states
A top event of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the area of civil protection was the meeting at the Pyramida Hotel in Prague on October 5 and 6, 2022. The expansion of the Union's Civil Protection Mechanism was the first point of discussion, and the group of member and participating states widen by including Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another topic was the reaction of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism to the Russian aggression against Ukraine and to the record season of forest fires not only in Southern, but also in Central Europe. In conclusion, Sweden invited to the 50th anniversary meeting in Stockholm in May 2023.
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Project Cartoners of the FRS of South Bohemian Region
It is an educational project in the field of fire prevention, population protection and an integrated rescue system for preschool children and young schoolchildren. Members of the FRS of the South Bohemian Region created short seven-minute videos on the topics of home fire, safe swimming, ice skating, flying a kite, emergency call lines, sirens, starting a fire in nature and a pilot introductory part. Each episode is accompanied by two cardboard figures. The implementation of the entire project was not easy at all, everything took about nine months. So far, eight episodes have been produced, and the second series is already being prepared.
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