STATE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE LITHUANIA

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STATE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICELITHUANIA

• Fire and Rescue DepartmentŠvitrigailos str. 18,
  Vilnius, Lietuva
• www.vpgt.lt
• pagd_at_vpgt.lt

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LITHUANIA AND ITS BORDERS
Latvia border 610 km
Sea border 99 km
Rusia border 303 km
Belarus border 724 km
Poland border 110 km

• area of 65,300 km² 3,431 mln inhabitants

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KLAIPEDA COUNTY

• Klaipeda City Fire Rescue Service co-ordinates
  actions of other 6 Fire Rescue Services of
  Klaipeda county

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TRANSBOUNDARY RISKS

• Industrial
• Ecological
• Natural disasters
• Floods
• Forests fires
• Accidents in the sea

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INDUSTRIAL RISKS (1)

• In terms of industrial accidents Lithuania is
  quite safe for its neighbours
• only the Butinge Oil Terminal of Mazeikiu Nafta
  carrying marine terminal operations of crude and
  refined products could have a major impact for
  the neighbor countries (especially Latvia) in
  case of a major accident.
• Totally 990 chemically dangerous establishments
  are registered in the Dangerous Establishments
  Database in Lithuania.
• The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant situated near
  Belarus border in the South East of Lithuanian is
  of course one of the mostly concerned safety
  issues in our country.

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INDUSTrIAL RISKS (2)

• Butinge oil terminal of Mazeikiu Nafta

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INDUSTRIAL RISKS (3)

• There are some other objects with potential
  significant harm at the national level in the
  case of the major accident, eg.
• JSC Klaipeda Stevedoring Company (KLASCO) with 6
  terminals
• SC Klaipedos Nafta
• other heavy industries, eg. producing components
  for building or civil engineering.

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ECOLOGICAL RISKS

• Lithuania, Latvia, Kaliningrad region, Belarus
  and Poland share common water basins, for example
  the river Neman, therefore ecological accidents
  may have effects for the ecosystems of all these
  countries
• in 2005 we had 36 emergencies related with oil
  spills- 5 large scale among them, 31 emergencies
  involving hazardous materials and 3 large scale
  among them
• one more risk the growth of road cargo flows
  and road accidents with hazardous materials.

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NATURAL DISASTERS FLOODS

• Because of the geographical situation similar
  natural disasters effect the bigger part of the
  whole Baltic sea region.
• Seasonal flood in Neman delta every spring
  requires common action planning both from
  Lithuanian and Kaliningrad rescue services side.

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FLOOD IN NEMAN DELTA, 2006

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• Co-ordination of readiness to the flood in the
  Neman delta Co-operation with EMERCOM Of
  Kaliningrad Region, Russian Federation

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NATURAL DISASTERS FORESTS FIRES

• Almost 1/3 of the territory of the country is
  covered by forests
• 24 large forests lay on the borders
• The number of fires in open areas makes 38,17
  percents of the total number of fires (2005)
• 267 forest fires (50 ha) were reiterated in 2005
  (accordingly in 2004 420 forest fires/220 ha).
• This year was extremely bad in regard of forest
  fires due to the drought in the late spring. Up
  today the total no. of forest fires reached 1444
  in the area of 1130 ha.

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In May 2006 the biggest fire out in the Curonian
split national park and ravaged 200 ha of forest.
Latvian rescue forces provided assistance with
helicopters.
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ACCIDENTS IN THE SEA

• Increase of the number of cargo carried by the
  sea transport
• Increase of international passenger ferries and
  cruse ships.

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BILATERAL COOPERATION NATIONAL LEVEL

• Bilateral agreements on prevention, preparedness
  and mutual assistance in the event of natural
  calamities and large-scale accident are signed
  between
• Lithuania and Poland
• Lithuania and Latvia
• Lithuania and Belarus
• etc.
• In negotiation process agreement with Russian
  Federation.

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BILATERAL COOPERATION REGIONAL LEVEL (1)

• Neighbourhood program Lithuania, Poland and
  Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation
• Common INTERREG III projects for Mariampole and
  Alytus Fire Rescue Services and Provincial
  headquarters of State Fire Service in Bialystok
  (Poland)
• INTERREG III-A project for Šiauliai and Jelgava
  (Latvia) Fire Rescue Services.

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BILATERAL COOPERATION REGIONAL LEVEL (2)

• Regional level cooperation is effective because
• the services share particular issues of fire
  rescue tactics, rather than general strategies
• neighbor areas of different states share common
  risks and methods to minimize these risks.

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THANK YOU!

• Fire and Rescue DepartmentŠvitrigailos str. 18,
• LT-03223 Vilnius,
• LIETUVA
• Tel. [phone]
• Faks. 370 5 271 7515
• El. p. pagd_at_vpgt.lt
• www.vpgt.lt