Civil Protection

Source: YEP - The leader of Leeds City Council said residents and business owners hit by the floods have a right to be angry after funding cuts led to a “preventable disaster”, reports Yorkshire Evening Post. Councillor Judith Blake said…

The 751 Squadron "Pumas" (Esquadra 751) is a helicopter squadron of the Portuguese Air Force. It is part of Grupo Operacional 61 and it is located in Air Force Base No. 6 (Portuguese: Base Aérea Nº 6, BA6), Montijo, south of Lisbon. It…

PHNOM PENH, 21 December 2015 (IRIN) - Eight months after a huge earthquake in Nepal killed almost 9,000 people and caused widespread devastation, an import-crippling border blockade provoked by a political dispute has sent prices…

A day-long series of panel discussions about the environmental hazards of living on the coast — and the potential solutions — brought almost 50 state and local officials

Terrorism is a complex phenomenon, it constantly evolves in its organization, its motivations and objectives as well as by its methods and means.

Paris, 28 October 2015 – Major risks are one of the five major topics of the 19th edition of Milipol Paris. Ever since 2009 a distinctive area at the heart of the exhibition is dedicated to this particularly sensitive issue of Internal…

Viet Nam Red Cross Society celebrates International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and launches the World Disasters Report 2015 By Ly Nguyen, IFRC It was a Tuesday morning. Normally Truong Thanh Truat, from the Hoang Tin commune in Hoang…

Nokia Networks has been working with various government agencies to understand their requirements for a reliable public safety system.

TACLOBAN, 8 September 2015 (IRIN) - “Before Haiyan, all we had on Grindr was mehhhh – four or five people. After Haiyan, boom – white men!” Jericho*, 28, finds it hard to recall much of a social scene in Tacloban before Typhoon Haiyan. A…

Disaster Preparedness in a Museums must be planned in a different manner compared with standard preparedness. First the Museum must have cares of visitors and staff, than the plan had to implement activities to safeguard archeological…