Summary Magazine 112 year 2022
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Balance press conference of FRS CR activities in 2021
The traditional balance press conference of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic for 2021 took place in the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, General Directorate of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic in Prague on 17th January 2022 at 10:00 am. The presented statistical data have so far been only preliminary and the finals will be published in the Statistical Yearbook 2021 in the March issue of this magazine.
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New Fire Station in Prague-Holešovice
After two years of construction, the new building of the Prague-Holešovice Fire Station was ceremoniously opened on Tuesday 18th January 2022. The event was attended by Mr. Vít Rakušan, the Minister of the Interior, Major General Vladimír Vlček, Ph.D., MBA, General Director of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, Mr. Zdeněk Hřib, Mayor of the City of Prague and Mr. Petr Hlubuček, his Deputy for Security, Mr. Jan Čižinský, Mayor of Prague-Holešovice, Col. Luděk Prudil, Director of the Prague FRS, and Brig. Gen. Roman Hlinovský, the former director of the Prague FRS, former and current members of the Prague FRS, and others.
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Apartment fire in Prague-Strašnice
On 29th July 2021 at 4.30 pm, smoke from a window on the seventh floor of an apartment building in the Prague-Strašnice district was reported to the Operational and Information Centre of the Prague Fire Rescue Service. The concreate-panel apartment building built in the 1970s had one underground and eleven floors, and its staircase, as the only escape route, was located in the middle of the floor plan. Moreover, from the time of its construction since now, neither assembly area had been set up at the apartment building, nor was the access road leading to it.
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New methods of extinguishing Li-batteries and their testing
Today, lithium batteries are widespread in all industries. We use them in different devices; they are of different types and have different safety features. The most common are Li-on and Li-pol. These types have excellent properties in terms of capacity and other parameters, but pose a potential threat in terms of security. Charged batteries either explode or rapidly burnout when penetrated, shorted, or exposed to heat. From this point of view, the risk of fire increases and it is necessary to solve the extinguishing. Current approved manufacturers' procedures recommend extinguishing these sources of electricity by immersing them in large amounts of water. Manufacturers are not yet known to describe a more efficient and simpler procedure. For this reason, we in the Technical Institute of Fire Protection focused on new, more effective ways of extinguishing, testing and modernizing them.
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Exercise of IRS bodies in Jablonec nad Nisou
The joint exercise of the Fire Rescue Service of the Liberec Region with the 31st Regiment of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection of Major General Oskar Starkoč and the Military Health Agency of the Czech Army, Department of Biological Protection took place in the end of 2021. The exercise topic was an emergency with the presence of biological substances (B-agents).
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Photo competition "Firefighters in front of / behind the lens"
The 17th year of the "Firefighters in front of and behind the lens" competition had the deadline the last day of September 2021. The Czech Association of Fire Officers (Czech FEU) in cooperation with the HAFOK Photo Club organizes this popular competition of photographing firefighters as well as amateur photographers from the public from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The partners of the photo competition also include the Fire Rescue Service of the Moravian-Silesian Region, the pozary.cz website and the hasik.cz preventive educational portal.
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