Jeju Dongbu Fire Station Successfully Concludes 'Volunteer Fire Brigade Lecture Contest'

Jeju Eastern Fire Station (Chief Kim Seung-yong) announced on the 1st that it held a volunteer firefighter professional instructor lecture contest in the Eastern Fire Station conference room the day before.

This competition was organized to strengthen the professional capabilities of volunteer firefighters who are leading the safety of the local community and to continuously expand their areas of activity.

Representing the Eastern Fire Station volunteer firefighters, a total of 25 volunteer firefighters from 10 teams composed of professional instructors in the fields of life safety and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) participated and passionately demonstrated their honed skills.

In the life safety category, volunteer firefighter Hong Eun-sook from Sinchon Women’s Volunteer Fire Brigade won the grand prize, and in the CPR category, volunteer firefighter Lee Mi-soon and prevention publicity team leader Hyun Yeon-hwa won the grand prize. They will represent the Eastern Fire Station at the provincial volunteer firefighter lecture contest to be held on the 16th.

Kim Seung-yong, chief of the Eastern Fire Station, said, “Volunteer firefighters play the role of safety guardians throughout the local community and actively support firefighters as reliable assistants. We will continue to actively support the continuous training of capable professional instructors so that they can take the lead in ensuring the safety of Jeju residents.”

Meanwhile, the Eastern Fire Station volunteer firefighters are focusing on hometown safety caretaker activities that provide life safety education, health counseling for elderly people living alone, and home safety inspections, centered on professional instructors in life safety and CPR, offering safety services closely connected to daily life.

They are also actively discovering community-tailored special policies such as emergency treatment education for haenyeo (female divers) and safety education at senior centers, expanding the activity areas of professional instructors and effectively fulfilling their role as safety guardians throughout the province.

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

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