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On April 11, 1958, the Tatar Republican Voluntary Fire Society was established. VDPO plays an important role in the security system, solving the tasks of forming public consciousness and civic position of the population in the field of fire safety, involving citizens in preventing and extinguishing fires. At the same time, the association is one of the largest and most extensive production and supply chains of fire-fighting products.

In order to ensure the safety of people's lives during the mass events, at certain dates, a ban will be imposed on the use of small boats, sailing, pleasure boats, sports vessels, including jet skis, kayaks, rowing boats, on the Kazanka River from the Kremlin dam to the Millennium Bridge, on the site of the river Kazanka from the Kirov dam to the intersection of Chuikov st. and Gavrilov st.

Incidents as of July 19:

Fire departments of Federal Fire Service of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan went on alert 35 times. Including garbage extinguishing – 2, false alarms – 11, short circuit – 1, meal burning – 3, cooperation with other services – 9. Firefighters of the republic eliminated 7 fires: bathhouses – 1, vehicles – 1, constructing buildings – 1, outhouses – 2, private houses – 2.

Today, the final of the republican review contest 'The Best Fire Department of the Federal Fire Service in the Republic of Tatarstan' was held. To this review contest, 19 best firefighters arrived to Kazan from all units of the federal fire service of the republic. The winner of the republican contest will pass to the regional stage. The contest program includes both power, applied fire exercises, 1 km cross, and questions on testing theoretical knowledge. 

In the afternoon on July 19, on Zainsk reservoir, two teenagers on an inflatable mattress were blown away by the wind and the current from the shore. OSVOD rescuers together with fishermen 600 meters away from the shore found and rescued two sixteen-year-old teenagers. They were unaccompanied by their parents. A protocol of an administrative offense will be drawn up against the parents.

Hundreds of Kazan residents came to the interactive site in Gorky-Ometyevo forest on July 18, organized by the Directorate of Parks and Squares in conjunction with Kazan Fire and Rescue Garrison within the  'Yasno' city summer program and the Year of Safety Culture in EMERCOM of Russia. On the interactive site of the forest park there was an exhibition of fire-fighting equipment and equipment of EMERCOM units. Everyone could become a real fire-fighter and try to extinguish a conditional fire.

Incidents as of July 18:

Fire departments of Federal Fire Service of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan went on alert 46 times. Including garbage extinguishing – 4, false alarms – 18, short circuit – 7, meal burning – 3, cooperation with other services – 8. Firefighters of the republic eliminated 1 fire: garden houses – 1.

July 18, the Day of the State Fire Supervision of EMERCOM of Russia. Head of the Department for Supervisory Activities and Preventive Work of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan, Colonel of Internal Service, Sergey Sergeev, addressed to the staff with congratulations, wishing good health, family well-being, success in very important activity to protect citizens of our republic from the threat of fires.

The competition is spent annually and has the federal status. The program of the contest includes review, power, fire-applied exercises, 1 km cross, as well as testing of theoretical knowledge. The winner was the guard commander of FRD-68 of the 7th detachment in Kazan, Nikita Semashkin.

Incidents as of July 17:

Fire departments of Federal Fire Service of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan went on alert 67 times. Including garbage extinguishing – 11, abandoned building – 1, false alarms – 28, short circuit – 3, meal burning – 1, cooperation with other services – 11, other – 1. Firefighters of the republic eliminated 7 fires: residential sector – 5, outhouses – 2. 3 persons died, 1 person was injured.