Trainings of firefighters

Expertise of REEFMC related to developing of methodology of trainings of key fire personal (incident commander, safety officer, strategy and tactics officer, firefighters) for Ukrainian forest fire brigades including staff in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Practical experiences in leading top-table exercises for interagency fire brigades personal and filed trainings, including transborder international trainings with Ukrainian and Byelorussian fire personal.

EuroFire A 2 year project from October 2006 to December 2008 funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme. The project brought together partners with international expertise and experience in wildfire and prescribed fire research, management and training to develop, evaluate, produce and distribute new European-wide, multi-lingual on-line training resources.

The EuroFire project researched and reviewed competency based wildfire and prescribed fire training systems, including best practice examples from Europe and around the world. This research informed the production of competency based basic training resources, for use in European countries.

The EuroFire training resources have been specifically developed to support firefighting personnel, the land-based sector, sectoral organisations and education and training institutions.

The EuroFire outputs include: competency standards, training modules, illustrations and general guidance on a competency based training system. Training resources that can be used by industry practitioners to update their knowledge, learn new skills or increase their understanding of basic wildfire and prescribed fire management techniques.

Eurofire Website with materials in 21 languages: http://www.euro-fire.eu/

Ukrainian EuroFire Website: https://gfmc.online/eurofire/ef_ukr.html

Direct download of all EuroFire Competency Standards and Training Materials in Ukrainian: https://gfmc.online/wp-content/uploads/EuroFire-Standards-Training-Materials-UKR.pdf

Other useful links:

Training centers:

• The national civil protection training centre, for the command system training (France)
• The national aerial training centre (for drones, helicopters, amphibious aircrafts coordination training) (France)
• The Marseille district forest fires training centre, with a LNG platform for simulation of fires in the trees (France), see attached files with a short video on how it works
• International Forestry Training Center (Turkey)