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Within the World Civil Defense Day, workers of JSC “Russian Railways” visited the Crisis Management Center of the Republic of Tatarstan. They came to Kazan to participate in gatherings organized by the Directorate of Railway Stations, a branch of JSC “Russian Railways” for its workers, authorized to solve tasks in the field of civil defense. On the whole, the guests liked the exploratory excursion, and they promised to tell their colleagues about the advanced experience in emergency situations prevention and liquidation when they would come back home.

Incidents as of March 1:

Fire departments of Federal Fire Service of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan went on alert 37 times. Including garbage extinguishing – 4, false alarms – 16, short circuit of wiring without burning – 0, meal burning – 1, cooperation with other services – 11. Firefighters of the republic eliminated 3 fires, including residential sector – 2, various types of property – 1.

Within an open day in the Educational Center of Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the Republic of Tatarstan, which was organized for the population by employees of the Center in cooperation with the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan at the World Civil Defense Day, workers of several enterprises and organizations of Kazan practiced resuscitative measures on training dummy, measured heads for identifying gas mask size and tried to put on gas masks correctly, learned the past and modern history of civil defense.

If worst scenario of passing freshet on the territory of the republic, 42 municipal districts can get into zones of possible flooding, where 220 settlements located with the population of 18 846 people, 48 social objects, 55 sections of highways, 36 road bridges, including 2 low water bridges. During the freshet period 149 temporary accommodation centers were planned with the capacity of 32 463 people.

Vladimir Puchkov noted that EMERCOM of Russia holds the work on the formation of new ways to the organization and conduction of civil defense, continues to build up efforts on strengthening international cooperation in the field of emergency situations prevention and liquidation, implementation of projects of assistance to international development, improving civil defense systems on regional, international and global levels, and he congratulated all veterans and the whole collective of EMERCOM of Russia with the World Civil Defense Day.

The report about fire in a house in Kazan was received at 8.28 P.M. There was burning an apartment on the seventh floor, and the apartment stairs were strongly smoky. Unfortunately, firefighting crews had to face the problem of randomly parked cars one more time. There was no space to reach the spot and set up the automatic ladder; the courtyard was densely chocked up with cars. Traffic inspection employees arrived to the house. 20 people were taken out of the strong smoke zone. The fire’s area estimated 13 sq. meters. A man born in 1958 died. Preliminary cause of the fire is careless smoking.

Incidents as of February 28:

Fire departments of Federal Fire Service of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan went on alert 34 times. Including garbage extinguishing – 1, false alarms – 15, short circuit of wiring without burning – 2, meal burning – 3, cooperation with other services – 4. Firefighters of the republic eliminated 7 fires, including residential sector – 2, outhouses – 2, construction vans – 2.

Duty brigades of EMERCOM, police and ambulance departed to the scene. While a policeman was trying to reach an agreement with a man through the locked door, employees of the fire and rescue department No. 53 set up a ladder to the window on the fifth floor. An EMERCOM psychologist, Irina Belova, entered the negotiations. She managed to establish the contact with the man, and persuaded him to let the policeman in. The policeman, Stepan Dolgarev, firstly, distracted then seized the guy behind. Then, firefighter came in time to help.

That was told today to journalists at the briefing “Civil Defense of the Republic of Tatarstan in Modern Conditions”, which took place in “Tatarinform” informational agency by the Deputy Chief of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan (on protection, monitoring and emergency situations prevention), Colonel Andrey Orlov.

Incidents as of February 27:

Fire departments of Federal Fire Service of the Headquarters of EMERCOM of Russia for the Republic of Tatarstan went on alert 31 times. Including garbage extinguishing – 3, false alarms – 16, short circuit of wiring without burning – 1, meal burning – 2, cooperation with other services – 5. Firefighters of the republic eliminated 3 fires, including outhouses – 2, various types of property – 1.