civil protection

This report is produced by OCHA oPt in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the period from 7 July (1800 hrs) to 9 July (1500 hrs). The next report will be issued on 10 July.  The targeting and…

In 2014 about three million consumers from more than 758,976 households in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur were experiencing water cuts for works on the supply of treated water. Today, in 2020 we still speak of water disruption in the same area,…

The UNISDR (United Nation Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) presents the third of five Programmes aimed to improve coherence, focus, depth and efficiency in delivering the results of UNISDR Strategic Framework: Towards 2025. This…

Eurosatory 2014 Expo host a new sector dedicated to the civil protection, search & rescue and security market. Vehicles, equipments, new technology and devices are the most interesting things in that exposition. Between the 684…

A professional rescue team are working about missing Briton Gareth David Huntely, disappeared on a solo waterfall trek on Malaysia's scenic Tioman Island. The team including 5 police officiers, 3 canine guides with 2 dogs, 3 civil defence…

The 9th European Regional Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent will be hosted by the Italian Red Cross in Florence from the 3rd to the 6th June gathering 53 National Societies.Among the themes, new aspects of migration, food security,…

The 14th RETTmobil is the concentrate of tradition and progress, achievement and success, for which there is no comparison on our continent. An impulse for the industry and the economy. A must for all those who help and…

"What will an emergency 2.0 resilient community look like?" is the article of Emergency 2.0 who talk over some scenarios of how a resilient community empowered with the knowledge to use social media and web 2.0 tools would recover from an…

There appears to be no respite from the tropical cyclones affecting Mexico. Official numbers already speak of 80 confirmed dead and 58 unaccounted for. "We were not expecting a storm of this magnitude", said Luis Walton, Mayor of Acapulco,…

A tragic accident involving a tourist bus in Malaysia has caused 37 deaths. The disaster brings back memories of the dreadful crash in Monteforte Irpino in July this year, which it resembles in terms of the number of victims and the…