‘Every day here is a new mission’ – EU Civil Protection’s Gerard Guerin
Since his secondment by the Irish Government to the European Commission in 2016, as a leading team member of the...
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Ireland’s Mick Gahan & Declan Cassidy re-elected to World Rescue Organisation
The World Rescue Organisation held its AGM on Thursday, where it elected its Executive Committee, ahead of this weekend’s virtual...
Finding a balance between the response and mitigating measures in an emergency
Many years ago, where a disaster or major emergency occurred, it’s thought people would have normally focused on the ‘response’...
Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO speaking at EUModex Think Tank
The European Civil Protection held an online Think Tank from Berlin today. Emergency Management executives and directors from across Europe...
First Finish emergency call received using PEMEA Emergency Call App
The Finnish Emergency Response Centre Agency, including mobile app 112 Suomi, successfully joined the PEMEA Network. PEAMA is the Pan-European...
EU Civil Protection deploys medical teams to Italy
A team of European doctors and nurses from Romania and Norway, deployed through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, is being immediately...
Civil Protection MODEX exercises continue across Europe
Five full-scale exercises for Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) modules, Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) other Response Capacities are being conducted...
Six Paris firefighters face gang rape charges
Six male firefighters are to be charged over an alleged gang rape of a 20-year old student at a fire...
PARIS: Firefighters killed in gas explosion
Two French firefighters and a Spanish woman were killed in a gas explosion in Paris. France's Prefecture de Police says...
Romanian Earthquake Exercise – ModEX Part 1
Natural disasters have become the norm across Europe with over 200 people being killed in various disasters in 2017 while...
