Gwangju Fire Department Strives to Improve Life-Saving and Response Capabilities for Collapse Accidents

'Urban Exploration Structure Training' Conducted

Firefighters in Gwangju Metropolitan City are dedicated to improving their rapid rescue and response capabilities.

The Gwangju Metropolitan City Fire Safety Headquarters announced on the 15th that it conducted an 'Urban Search and Rescue Training' in preparation for collapse accidents.

This training was designed to enhance the professional skills of rescue personnel by identifying hazards at major accident sites such as fires, earthquakes, and terrorism, and by conducting rapid life-saving operations for victims buried under building debris or injured.

A total of 24 119 rescue team members participated, utilizing 62 pieces of 27 types of urban search and rescue equipment, including heavy lifting tools and cutting, demolition, and search rescue devices, to conduct 'life search and rescue training at collapse sites.'

In particular, using specially manufactured concrete blocks, they conducted realistic training such as ▲ mastering urban search equipment ▲ stabilizing buried sites ▲ mastering search, site, access, and rescue techniques ▲ and isolated life rescue training.

Song Seong-hoon, head of the Rescue and Emergency Medical Services Division, said, “Rapid life rescue and minimizing casualties at collapse sites are demonstrated through the skilled professional abilities of rescue personnel,” adding, “We will continue to actively promote various training programs to strengthen the capabilities of rescue personnel.”

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