Our people are excellently prepared. We can offer our help in crisis situations and in the trainings, declares Marcin Gala, national rescue coordinator of the Polish Mountaineering Association. (own info)
Fire in Volkswagen
In Antoninek near Poznań a very dangerous fire burst out in a varnishing plant of Volkswagen factory in February. Rescue and firefighting action prevented the valuable property from being destroyed. Jerzy Ranecki describes the rescue and firefighting action.
Tragedy Was Close
At least seven shattered road signs, over ten damaged street lamps, pulled out kerbstones, riddled asphalt and pavement, huge wooden logs scattered across. It is a miracle that nobody was harmed - say the eyewitnesses. Report by Marcin Betleja
They Showed How to Rescue
The 6th Medical Rescue Manouvres "Zakład" took place in the Jelenia Góra District in March. They were special, since a record number of people participated in the event - about 350 persons including the trainers. By Arkadiusz Cytawa
Multienergy Method
Articles concerning the issues of large-scale explosions have been published in Fire Review quite frequently in the last years. This article presents a method for calculation of BLEVE consequences, which is used to estimate the effects of explosion wave (overpressure). By Ernest Ziębaczewski
Grounds for Contamination Prediction. Part 1
Weather - Enemy or Ally
Contamination prediction defined as "an evaluation of the development of situation resulting from the contamination with predicting at the same time the possible contamination consequences" plays an important role among different actions taken to limit the consequences of chemical accidents (local chemical end ecological hazards). By Włodzimierz Wątor
Before the Forests Start to Burn
We have to be better prepared on the incoming forest fires, which often result from long-lasting droughts. This is the only way we can avoid experiences of Greek, Italian or Spanish rescue services, which lost the battles with fires in the last years. By Jarosław Zarzycki
Capital City for its Firefighters
The president of the Polish capital city, Ms Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz handed over rescue and firefighting equipment worth 11 million zlotys to the firefighters from Warsaw. The equipment is bought with the financial means of the city. Jerzy Linder describes the gems of the rescue technology, which were given the fire stations in Warsaw
Above expectations
An increasing number of Polish automotive companies export their products into new markets. Polish exporters of the firefighting vehicles include the following companies: ISS Piotr Wawrzaszek and Pojazdy Specjalistyczne Zbigniew Szczęśniak from Bielsko-Biała, Stolarczyk and Moto-Truck from Kielce and Machinery Plant „Bumar-Koszalin". By Paweł Frątczak and Zbigniew Szablewski.
SEVESO II - Environmental Protection Law
Our Position in the System
According to the Environmental Protection Law implementing the provisions of the Seveso II Directive to the national legal order, all the tasks regarding control, supervision and administrative decisions required from the operators of any establishments posing a hazard of major industrial accident were assigned to the State Fire Service. By Ryszard Tomczak
New Tool for Learning Foreign Languages
Multicom 112 PLUS
An interactive programme for learning foreign languages designed for operators of emergency call centers has just been released in Polish version, which had been prepared since 2005. The final product - a CD gives a choice of 11 languages: Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Turkish. By Tomasz Białas
Educational Role of the Museums of Fire Service
It Is Worth to Invest in the Past
Initially museums were geared mainly for collecting, storing and conservation of the pieces they were given. In time they started to play educational role. By Kazimierz Żegnałek
Accidental Fascination
Lech Lewandowski writes about a collecting hobby of Maria and Stanisław Drapniewski.
Cup with a Hook
Polish Cup of the Chief Commandant of the State Fire Service in the Hook Ladder - first event ever classified consisting in climbing third level of a drill tower with the use of a hook ladder took place in 2007. Ignacy Dwornik, Grzegorz Tyszuk and Karol Utrata: three generations of firefighters climbing hook ladders have waited for this event since the beginning of the 1980s. The third one could take part in the cup at the end of his sporting career, but his older colleagues unfortunately could not wait till the cup. By Piotr Sokołowski
Masters Are Born in This Way
Article about unusual achievements of Senior Aspirant Artur Tokarczyk
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