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National Directorate General for Disaster Management 2 0 1 5 NATIONAL DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR DISAS TER MANAGEMENT MINIS TRY OF THE INTERIOR KATASZTRÓFAVÉDELEM KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 1 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:153:25:15 Published by: Fire Service Major General Dr Tibor Tollár Director of the National Directorate General for Disaster Management Compiled by: Department of Administration, National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of Interior In association with: The organisational units of the National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of Interior, Budapest and county directorates, the Technical Supply Centre, the Disaster Management Training Centre and the National University of Public Service Photos: Communication Centre, National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of Interior Budapest and county disaster management directorates National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications Hungarian News Agency - MTI Website: www.katasztrofavedelem.hu Graphic design, prepress: A&Z Cartography Production: Crew Print Kft. HU ISSN 1785-072X KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 2 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:153:25:15 NATIONAL DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 3 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:153:25:15 DISASTER MANAGEMENT 2016 THE THREE MAIN PILLARS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT FIRE SAFETY CIVIL PROTECTION INDUSTRIAL SAFETY KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 4 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:153:25:15 FOREWORD It was a quiet year for disaster management in relation to the previous year; however, this does not mean that there is nothing to summarise and pass on to future generations. This is precisely why the organisation has once again compiled its yearbook presenting an overview of the most relevant events, incidents unfolding in 2015. This edition helps readers gain insight into the work of the entire organisation by not only presenting the various fields of expertise, but also the county directorates and the challenges they faced last year and how they managed to overcome these. Similarly to the previous edition, we have endeavoured to graphically help guide readers by including as many photos and diagrams possible, since it is just as important for coming generations to get a clear picture of what disaster management means today at the beginning of the 21st century. This is because the organisation called disaster management assumes a complex range of tasks, about which only those that are explicitly involved in this field or research it have an overview beyond the staff working in the field. Fire protection, civil protection or even industrial safety alone covers a huge area; it is enough to mention how the number of volunteer fire brigades and rescue organisations has increased year by year or the higher workloads of critical infrastructure protection day after day. And we haven’t even mentioned how serious financial and human resources are required for performing all these activities. This is equally true at a national and county level; i.e., readers will by no means view the past year as an uneventful one by the time they get to the end of this edition. All the more so, even though there was no prolonged flooding or inland water, there nevertheless was an incident (earthquake, flash flood or storm damages, major accidents) in each county that put both intervention experts and their managers overseeing their work to the test. Employees at various authorities also had a busy year, 5 KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 5 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:173:25:17 FOREWORD since changes to scopes of authority were once made in 2015. The lion’s share of the tasks of the water authority was allocated to the organisation in 2014, while preparing water investments mobilising huge amounts of funding was also undertaken last year; moreover, the way in which more volunteer fire service associations became capable of intervening independently also consumed a great deal of energy and various settlements are now literally competing to establish a local rescue team. The way in which more and more people show interest in the organisation and the career of fire fighters is by no means by pure chance. There is an extremely high number of applicants applying for the modular fire fighter course, similarly to the various departments of the Institute of Disaster Management of the National University of Public Service. Many people are obviously planning to build a career within the organisation, most probably because a career in law enforcement is now an attractive one. And we haven’t even mentioned international relations that are becoming stronger and stronger or that the HUNOR (Hungarian National Organisation for Rescue Services) rescue organisation is being invited to more and more exercises. Foreign delegations visited one after the next last year, which groups came to study instead of teaching. HUNOR is invited to exercises only mobilising teams from one or two countries, in which context this heavy weight rescue team does not simply represent the disaster management organisation, but the whole country. This in turn raises the prestige of the organisation, improves its reputation. Why do we want readers to gain insight into this work? Because we still find it important for you, dear reader, to be provided with overview of the activity of the organisation, since public security is important for every single Hungarian citizen and disaster management is an integral part of this system. Whatever we do either directly or indirectly impacts the life 6 KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 6 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:173:25:17 FOREWORD of the Hungarian population, its security and how the country functions on a daily basis. Nothing has changed even though a new management was appointed at the helm of the disas- ter management organisation in the middle of April last year. A strong organisation with a developing set of tools and equipment adapted to its fundamental mission, IT support and expertise is working hard day after day in all corners of the country. Major General Dr. Tibor Tollár Director General 7 KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 7 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:173:25:17 Dr. Zoltán Góra Dr. Tibor Tollár Ibolya Tóth Fire Fighter Major General Fire Fighter Major General Fire Fighter Brigadier General Deputy Director General Director General Deputy Financial Director General Dr. László Bérczi Dr. Ferenc Tóth Dr. Árpád Takács Fire Fighter Brigadier General Fire Fighter Brigadier General Fire Fighter Brigadier General National Inspector General Inspector General for National Inspector General for Fire Services National Civil Protection for Industrial Safety KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 8 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:183:25:18 Tibor Bittmann Judit Mecsei Fire Fighter Brigadier General Fire Fighter Colonel Director for Human Services Audit Service Director Mrs Gulyás, Dr Tímea Gyurka Katalin Újhegyi Fire Fighter Colonel Communication Services Director Head of Offi ce KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 9 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:213:25:21 CHRONOLOGY JANUARY 1: A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck near the settlement of Iliny in Nógrád County, followed by another 4 magnitude earthquake. There were two aftershocks in the county on the same day, followed by an aftershock of 2.1 on 7 January. The operations emergency call centre of the Nógrád County Directorate for Disaster Management received a total of ninety emergency calls from settlements after the first earthquake struck from 1 January to 7 January. 29 January – 1 February: The snowfall mostly caused problems in the Transdanubian counties; the disaster management organisation was deployed approximately three hundred times around the country in connection with the snowfall and snow piling up after the blizzard during these four days. FEBRUARY 6: Eighty-two warrant officers that completed the second module of the new type of vocational training for fire fighters swore an oath at the graduation ceremony held at the Disaster Management Training Centre. Seven new HEROS AQUADUX-X 3000 fire engines were also handed over at the event. 19 February – 4 March: Hungary launched a shipment of twenty-five tonnes of equipment comprised of a high-power purification device and one water purification and bagging device to Albania where the heavy rain that fell at the end of January and beginning of February caused an emergen- cy flooding situation. The Hungarian unit purified a total of one hundred thousand litres of drinking water during the ten workdays of the mission. 10 KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 1100 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:233:25:23 KKatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.inddatasztrofavedelmi_kalendarium_angol.indd 1111 22016.05.11.016.05.11. 113:25:233:25:23 CHRONOLOGY MARCH 3: A grants information day was held at the National Directorate Gen- eral for Disaster Management, Ministry of Interior, during which experts from the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection provided
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