MINISTRY OF INTERIOR CHIEF DIRECTORATE FIRE SAFETY AND CIVIL

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MINISTRY OF INTERIOR

• CHIEF DIRECTORATE FIRE SAFETY AND
• CIVIL PROTECTION

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CHIEF DIRECTORATE FIRE SAFETY ANDCIVIL
PROTECTION - MoI
LAW ON THE MoI

• With the amendments to the Law on the Ministry
  of Interior (promulg. Official Gazette No 88 of 9
  November 2010) the Chief Directorate Fire Safety
  and Rescue and the Chief Directorate Civil
  Protection were integrated in a new structure
  Chief Directorate Fire Safety and Civil
  Protection.
• According to the art. 52 g of the Law on the MoI
  the tasks of the integrated CD FSCP are
• (1) The Chief Directorate Fire Safety and Civil
  Protection is a national specialized structure of
  the MoI for ensuring fire safety, rescue and
  protection in case of disasters under the terms
  and provisions of this Law and the Disaster
  Protection Law .

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CHIEF DIRECTORATE FIRE SAFETY ANDCIVIL
PROTECTION - MoI

• Implements
• Prevention and control fire distinguishing and
  state antifire control, rescue activities
• Authorization and control activities of traders
  operating in fire safety in premises and / or
  operation of facilities and equipment related to
  fire safety
• Authorization and control activity of products
  for fire extinguishinh in regards to their
  effectiveness
• Emergency rescue and recovery activities,
  operational protection in case of floods and
  search and rescue operations
• CBRN protection in case of incidents and
  accidents with dangerous substances and materials
  and mitigation of ecological incidents

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• Early warning and announcement in case of
  disasters and aerial danger of the executive
  authorities and the population
• Protection of the population in case of wartime
  or emergency situation in compliance with the
  Geneva Conventions
• Assistance in the activities of the Interagency
  Commission for recovery and relief to the Council
  of Ministers
• Methodical and expert support for disaster
  protection to the territorial executive
  authorities
• Operational cooperation with the EU and NATO
  structures and other international organizations
  in the field of fire safety and protection of the
  population, humanitarian aid and civil-military
  emergency planning.

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FIREFIGHTING ACTIVITY INCLUDES
MAIN ACTIVITIES

• immediate dispatching of personnel and equipment
  in case of received fire information
• situation analysis and assessment
• fires restraint and liquidation
• determination of methods, ways and means of
  firefighting
• development of fire liquidation plans

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Rescue activities cover

• Immediate deployment of forces and equipment
  incase of fires, disasters and emergency
  situations
• Analysis and assessment of the situation
• Rescue people and property
• Render first aid to the victims
• Organizing the transportation of injured to the
  hospitals.

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STATE FIRE CONTROL

• fire safety regulation and norms observing
  control in designing, building, reconstruction,
  modernization and exploitation of objects in
  urbanized, agricultural, forest, protected areas
  and disturbance areas for recovery, buildings and
  technological facilities and installations

•  control of extinguishing products, relating to
  their effectiveness, availability of permission
  and observing rules of its issuing.

• participation in the State acceptation
  commissions for allowing building use

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STATE FIRE CONTROL

• Control for the compliance of the implemented
  in the construction sites products with the legal
  fire safety requirements

• Coordination of projects and giving of
  positions for constructions bringing into
  exploitation

• Issue of certificates and implementation of
  certification control for the compliance of the
  objects with the fire safety requirements

• Control for observing of the regulations of the
  issued permissions of tradesmen and the
  activities implemented by them.

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PREVENTION

• Information, awareness and training of the
  population on the fire prevention, the needed
  behavior in case of fires, disasters and
  emergency situations and on the implementation of
  the necessary protective measures
• Participation in the development of the plans
  relating to the disaster protection
• Assisting the Minister of Interior in carrying
  out the categorization of the territory of the
  country depending on the risks of disasters
• Maintenance of collective and individual means of
  protection committed to the CD FSCP

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PREVENTION

• Analysis of the information received in the
  National Operational Communication and
  Information Center to support the process of the
  risk management in case of disaster
• Offering guidelines for the development of the
  training and the educational programs on the
  protection in case of fire, disasters and
  emergency situations
• Participation in the development of the plans
  related to the disaster protection

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THE PREVENTION ACTIVITY AS PART OF DISASTER
PROTECTION
634 Youth firefighting teams Young firefighter
in which 8247 school children participate
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INFORMATION ANALITICAL ACTIVITY
Planning, collecting, management, analysis,
systematization, use, storage and provision of
information from the information funds.

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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

• With the Disaster Protection Law and the Law on
  the MoI 2006 an Integrated Rescue System was
  established and the following issues were
  regulated
• Establishment of IRS
• Participation of the population, institutions
  and private sector
• Declaring of Emergency situation, support and
  recovery
• Functions of the executive power and main
  functions, tasks and duties of the employees of
  MoI fire safety services and protection of the
  population teams
• Recovery and relief activities
• DPL defines the CD FSCP as a main structure of
  the Integrated Rescue System in case of major
  disasters (Art. 22).

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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATED RESCUE SYSTEM
EUROPEAN EMERGENCY NUMBER 112
CD FSCP
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Departments and offices of ministries,
directorates and local authorities
Commercial organizations and sole traders
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
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METHODS FOR PROTECTION OF THE POPULATION
DISASTER PROTECTION LAW
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EMERGENCY PLANNING

• Main part of prevention is the
• adequate emergency planning.
• CD FSCP elaborates National disaster protection
  plan, which includes plans in case of
• Floods
• Earthquakes
• Winter storms and ice sliding
• Oil products spill
• Fires
• Industrial incidents
• Radiological incidents
• Biological contamination
• Terrorist acts.
• .

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Regional administrations of ministries and
agencies
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NOCIC
In the National operative communication and
information center (NOCIC) of CD FSCP-MoI
information from ministries, agencies, regional
administrations and units of CD FSCP is collected
regarding

• Disasters and emergencies within and outside the
  territory of the state (earthquakes, floods,
  stormy winds and of the natural and man-made).
• Potential hazards for various disasters
  (monitoring).
• Status of risky and potentially dangerous
  facilities on the territory of the state.
• Level of radiation (for the state and NPP
  Kozloduy).
• Status of dams on the territory of the state.
• Water level and status of Danube river.
• Status and level of contamination of the
  environment.
• Meteorological situation and forecasts.
• Status of the road system and infrastructure in
  case of disaster.

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NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR EARLY WARNING AND ALERT
NATIONAL SYSTEMS
REGULATION FOR EARLY WARNING AND ALERT IN CASE OF
DISASTERS In force since 07.04.2009. Approved by
Decree of the Council of Ministers ?70 from
27.03.2009.
1. System for early warning and alert of the
executive power bodies and the components of the
Integrated Rescue System

• 2. System for early warning and alert of the
  population.

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System for early warning and alert of the
executive power bodies and the components of the
Integrated Rescue System
Designed for individual warning and alert. It
works through data bases, composed by previously
defined alert groups. Capacity of the system is
up to 28 000 officials. For every person up to 4
phone numbers can be input.
The system requires confirmation from the person
through input of Personal Identification Number
(PIN) for registration of the alert.
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The units for early warning and alarming of the
executive bodies and the parts of the Integrated
rescue system on national level are as
follows 1. President, chairman of the
parliament, prime minister 2. Coordination staff
to the Minister of Interior 3. Ministries, State
and executive Agencies and Commissions, At
regional level 1. Regional administration 2.
Regional coordination staff 3. Municipality
administration 4. Municipality coordination
staff 5. Municipality 6. Parts of Integrated
rescue system at regional and municipality
level.
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The alarming system is a centralized network,
open type with allocated resources, which allows
parallel processing of information. It structure
allows it to develop in horizontal and vertical
levels of management and integration of existing
authority's, regionals and municipalitys
subsystems.
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INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEM

• The system includes
• Communication subsystem
• Informational subsystem
• GPS subsystem
• Subsystem for video monitoring
• Subsystem for videoconference
• Connection between 28 Operational communication
  and information centers and 31 teams for
  emergency activities
• Connection between the National Operational
  communication and information center and 28
  Operational communication and information centers
  with European emergency number 112

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System for management of emergency rescue and
recovery activities
CHIEF DIRECTORATE FIRE SAFETY AND CIVIL
PROTECTION
The system includes data for the recourses on the
territory of the regions from the Integrated
rescue system for conducting of RERA
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RAMO
RAMO is a system which uses a sound and light to
alarm when the radiation levels exceed the
norms. Another possible use of the system is for
time status.
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RODOS
RODOS is a system for taking of integrated
decisions and estimation on the base of modeling
and prognosis of nuclear and chemical incidents.
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The Common Emergency Communication and
Information System is developed as a part of
PROCIV-NET Project
CECIS
The basic aim of the system is to ensure
reciprocity between the national bodies and to
facilitate the coordination in case of request
and acceptance of assistance in emergencies,
technological or manmade, in the frames of the
Community Civil Protection Mechanism
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CIWIN is a platform for information exchange for
protection of European critical infrastructure,
Directive 2008/114/EC of the Council of the EU
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AEROSPACE MONITORING CENTER (AMC)
The situation center maintains constant contact
with the Aerospace monitoring center , as the
information for the disasters, weather forecasts
and etc. is sent to all regional structures of CD
FSCP, regional governors, mayors, energy
delivering plants, and all bodies of local and
executive authorities responsible for the rescue
and recovery activities.
AMC is a point of contact for applying of the
Project for Global monitoring of the environment
and security of EC in the part of Response in
emergencies.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• CD FSCP realizes an active cooperation with
  international, regional and bilateral
  organizations.
• European union PROCIV working group to the
  Council of the EU, Monitoring and information
  center of DG ECHO, DG HOME, Civil Protection
  Committee to the EC
• NATO Civil emergency planning committee, Civil
  Protection Group, and Euro-Atlantic Disaster
  Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC)
• UN UNDP, UN OCHA, UN ISDR, UN ECE and etc.
• Council of Europe European and Mediterranean
  Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA)
• Organization for prohibition of chemical
  weapons.
• Corpus of peace of US and etc.

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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• Situation center of CD FSCP MoI is a point of
  contact with
• - Monitoring and Information Center (MIC)
• DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG
  ECHO)
• Situation center of the Council of the EU
  (SITCEN)
• DG Internal affairs (DG HOME)
• (for protection of the critical infrastructure)
• Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination
  Centre (EADRCC)
• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
  Affairs (UN OCHA)
• UN Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE)
• Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Initiative
  for SEE (DPPI SEE)
• Civil-Military Emergency Planning Council (CMEP)

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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
CD FSCP has 3 registered modules (Medium urban
search and rescue MUSAR, Module for search and
rescue in contaminated area SAR in CBRN and
Ground forest fires fighting module (GFFF), to
the European Commission, for urgent operations
outside the territory of the state, the EU and in
third countries.
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EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN MISSIONS
Serbia and Montenegro River Lim April 2004
Bus accident with students
Russia August 2010 Forest fires in Moscow
Turkey 2004 ship wreck Hera
Greece August-September 2007 forest fires
Peloponnese
Turkey November 1999 earthquake town of
Duzdje
Iran December 2003 earthquake, town of Bam
Turkey August 1999 earthquake, Izmir
Israel December 2010 forest fires in Haifa
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HUMANITARIAN AID

• Providing humanitarian aid
• Greece the earthquake in September 1999
• Turkey earthquakes in August and November 1999
  
• Czech Republic floods in August 2002
• Afghanistan earthquake in October 2002
• Alger earthquake in August 2003
• Sudan floods in September 2003
• Iraq earthquake in December 2003
• Iran earthquake in December 2003
• Indonesia and Sri Lanka tsunami in January
  2005
• Lebanon February 2007
• 2010
• Humanitarian aid to Chili after the earthquake
  - May 2010
• Humanitarian aid to Hungary after the floods
  June 2010
• Bulgaria received humanitarian aid after the
  floods in 2005 and 2006 from
• Austria, Germany, Czech Republic , Slovakia,
  Poland, Belgium , Greece, Slovenia, Turkey,
  Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, Japan, USA and
  Russia

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CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Montana

• Main functions
• Training of rescuers for professional
  qualification Rescuer in case of disasters,
  accidents and catastrophes / license ?
  200512276/ from 2005
• Specialized training on radiation protection /
  license serial ??, ? 02464 / from 06.06.2008/
• Training on external programs
• Organizing and conducting of regional, national
  and international exercises
• Conducting methodological activities.

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TRAINING FACILITIES
Simulation of chemical accidents
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ACTIVITIES IN CASE OF RADIATION ACCIDENTS
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Search and Rescue in case of earthquakes
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Search and rescue in case of floods
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RESEARCH ACTIVITY FOR FIRE SAFETY AND CIVIL
PROTECTION INCLUDES

• design of rules and norms for fire safety and
  civil protection provision
• information services and development of research
  products in the field of fire safety and civil
  protection
• research of the reasons and conditions for
  origination and spreading of fires, emergencies
  and disasters and performing fire technical
  experts reports and etc.
• design of methods and means for prevention and
  liquidation of fires, emergencies and disasters

• verification of construction products for
  conformity assessment with the legal requirements
  and technical specifications for fire safety on
  the constructions
• Researching, testing and specifying of technical
  and exploitation parameters of fire and technical
  armament and extinguishing substances
• Conformity assessment of products, used in
  firefighting and rescue activity with product
  specifications and standards.

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RESEARCH ACTIVITY
The Fire Safety and Civil Protection Testing
Centre has been accredited by the Executive
Agency Bulgarian Accreditation Service on BDS EN
ISO/IEC 170252006. It is a permanent member of
EGOLF (European Group Of Laboratories For Fire
Research, Control And Certification) since March
2004
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RESEARCH ACTIVITY INCLUDES
Design of scientific, research and application
products
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Research of the reasons and conditions for
origination and spreading of fires, emergencies
and disasters
Fire and technical, physical and chemical and
electro technical expertise
Design of methods and means for prevention and
liquidation of fires, emergencies and disasters
Design of rules and norms for fire safety and
civil protection provision
Performing of tests for establishing compliance
of the products with the requirements for fire
and emergency safety
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EXPERT ACTIVITY
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Contact point CHIEF DIRECTORATE FIRE SAFETY
AND CIVIL PROTECTION - MoI 171? Pirotska Str.,
Sofia 1309 Tel. [phone] Fax
02.982.11.81 E-mail nspab_at_mvr.bg