Statistical Yearbook 2009 - (I.)

Fire units activities, Emergency calls, Fires, Prevention, Humanitarian assistance, Economic Indicators, Foreign statistics, Materials and information, Types of incidents with fire units interventions and Notes  

FOREST FIRES 2009 (FF09)

From 18 to 20 September 2009, the FOREST FIRES 2009 exercise took place in the Hradiště military training area in Doupov Mountains. The exercise, organized by the Karlovy Vary FRS, was aimed at fighting forest fires and wildfires. Forest fires and wildfires (hereafter referred to as "forest fires") belong to most difficult in terms of conditions of location fire and liquidation. Very often, the area of the fire is large, and hard-to-access, and fire extinguishing itself is typical for water shortages and insufficient number of forces and equipment on-site. In spite of the developed network of forest roads in the Czech Republic, inaccessibility to the incident place is usually caused by the lack of load capacity of terrain, and by other off-road conditions (slope unavailability for different types of fire equipment, etc.). Therefore, the goal of this exercise was to verify the deployment of all available technical resources usable for fighting forest fires, and test out their coordinated deployment. Large number of fire units was involved, and fire unit detachments from other regions, including kits for long-distance transport of water (SOMATIC Hytrans Fire System), the cross-border deployment of THW (Technisches Hilfswerk), German rescue units, use of aircraft and helicopters for aerial firefighting, the SPOT crawler water tender, and creating of fire- lines, transport of goods and persons by helicopters to the inaccessible terrain, trying massive rearrangement of forces and equipment, including organization and coordination of transit of these forces and equipment for a few days, and operating humanitarian base for receiving evacuees.

The largest exercise ever organized in the Czech Republic was attended by 196 pieces of fire equipment and nearly 500 firefighters and paramedics. Additional to firefighters from MI, DG FRS, and from 5 regional FRSs, in the exercise participated the Czech police, EMS, and the already mentioned German rescuers from the THW. Special forces from Hlučín Rescue Unit moved to the training area on its own as well, equipped with heavy tank fire-fighting equipment including the SPOT crawler water tender and recovery equipment. Rescuers from Hlučín transported also the mobile humanitarian base for receiving evacuees to the place of exercises.

Třebíč 2009
On 16th September 2009, one of the biggest tactical exercises of IRS bodies of the Vysočina Region was held, attended by over 300 people - professional and volunteer firefighters, policemen, rescue workers, soldiers, hospital staff, law enforcement proceedings, students, staff offices and other services. Aim of the exercise was to verify the process and tactics of the IRS components for joint action on rescue and liquidation work of the processed type of work for STC - 04/IZS accident checklist, i.e. aircraft accident. Next, to check connection between the components of IRS, to check up activities of the operational centres of individual components of the IRS, to determine the possible extent and level of cooperation among intervening IRS components, and to examine the traumatological plan of the Třebíč Hospital. The exercise also involved monitoring around the site and search injured persons from the air by a helicopter of the Air Rescue Services, and a helicopter of the Air Service of the Czech Police (SAR).

The exercise achieved its objectives and demonstrated that components of the IRS from the Vysočina Region are able to handle an event of such a large scale.


ROPA 2009
On 29th April 2009 an imaginary damage of the Družba pipeline and the Čepro pipeline occurred on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This was the scenario of the ROPA 2009 international seminar, which took place in the border zone in districts of Hodonín and Břeclav (CZ) and Skalica (SK). The aim was to train cooperating ways of IRS operation centres in the deployment of units of IRS components and foreign forces and equipment, and to check up warning and notification system in the border area near the Morava River in rescue and liquidation work.

The exercise should also examine tactics of deployed IRS components for joint action, and to check up procedures in operations under emergency documentation, and next to test work of the incident commander staff in terms of cross-border cooperation, dealing with accidental water pollution. Also pipeline operators tested their own preparedness for emergency destruction during the exercise.

Total of 14 units of the Czech and Slovak firefighters, and units of the Czech Police, EMS, dispatch teams of the MERO ČR, Inc. company, the ČEPRO Inc. company, and the Dekonta, Inc. company, and other specialists and experts for liquidation of consequences of ecological accidents intervened on-site. Also the Hlučín Rescue Unit was checked up, especially its ability to provide meals during long-term interventions. Practical demonstrations of equipment and technology devices of the IRS bodies, the Dekonta, Inc. company, the REO AMOS, Ltd. company, and the Vodní zdroje Inc. company accompanied the exercise.

Evaluation of the results of the ROPA 2009 international and tactical exercise showed that the targets were fully met.

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