"Polish firemen have been already involved several times in the assistance for victims of disasters all over the world. On results of this assistance, difficulties and a future of the International Rescue Groups of the State Fire Service (SFS) in a talk with col. ANDRZEJ SZTARBAŁA, director of the National Coordination Centre for Rescue Operations and Civil Protection in the National HQ of the SFS and the commanding officer- leader of the Polish teams in Algeria, Iran, Hungary and recently in Pakistan....."