Gyeonggi-do Provides 'Job Training' for Local Autonomous Disaster Prevention Teams

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province will conduct job training for 520 members of the local autonomous disaster prevention teams from the 8th of this month to the 4th of next month in preparation for summer disasters.

The local autonomous disaster prevention teams are community-based disaster prevention organizations where local residents, who usually engage in everyday work such as office jobs, voluntarily participate in prevention and recovery activities against various disasters such as typhoons and heavy rain. Currently, about 9,500 people are active in 31 cities and counties.

This job training will be held at the Ansan Gyeonggi-do Marine Safety Experience Center and is organized around training subjects suitable for the local autonomous disaster prevention teams to prevent water-related accidents and disasters during the summer season.

The main training contents include coastal life safety education, marine survival swimming, and fire suppression and evacuation experience.

Lee Jin-chan, Director of the Safety Management Office of the province, said, "It is fortunate that we can resume the autonomous disaster prevention team training, which was not conducted for two years due to COVID-19," and emphasized, "We will continue to strengthen education and training to improve the job capabilities of the autonomous disaster prevention teams, a civilian organization, to ensure that no blind spots occur in disaster safety."

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