Jeju Fire Headquarters Conducts Joint Drill for "Making Way for Fire Trucks"

[Jeju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Hwang Jeongpil] The Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Fire Safety Headquarters announced on the 14th that it conducted a ‘Joint Training for Making Way for Fire Trucks with Residents’ across all areas of the province.

The Jeju Fire Safety Headquarters conducts fire truck way-making training at least once a month in cooperation with related organizations such as the Autonomous Police Unit and TBN Traffic Broadcasting to encourage active interest and participation from residents.

Recently, to increase residents’ awareness, promotional activities have been strengthened through expanding ride-along experiences and campaigns involving various occupational groups.

On this day, the training was simultaneously conducted in 24 major sections throughout the province, including a roughly 5.5 km route from Jeju Fire Station → Gwangyang Intersection → Sinjeju Entrance Intersection → Jeju Provincial Office.

About 300 personnel including firefighters, volunteer firefighters, and related organizations, along with 63 vehicles such as fire trucks, participated in the training.

TBN Jeju Traffic Broadcasting transmitted the training situation and emergency vehicle yielding methods to listeners in real time, while the Autonomous Police Unit’s motorcycle officers controlled vehicle movement in advance at major intersections and congested areas to secure movement routes, activating a cooperative system to enhance training effectiveness.

Governor Oh Young-hoon personally rode along in a fire truck during the training to check the fire truck dispatch environment and emphasized the necessity of yielding to emergency vehicles and improving the dispatch environment for fire trucks.

Governor Oh said, “Thanks to the active cooperation of citizens, the training time was shortened compared to the initial expectation,” and added, “Since the effectiveness of the fire truck way-making project has been proven, we will strengthen training to ensure it is applied without any issues in actual situations.”

He continued, “Jeju Provincial Office will strengthen cooperation with related organizations such as the Fire Safety Headquarters and Autonomous Police Unit to secure the golden time at disaster sites, and will spare no support to ensure smooth progress of projects related to improving the fire truck dispatch environment.”

Jeju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Hwang Jeongpil baekok@asiae.co.kr

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