As for fires, in 2016 firefighters from Komenda Powiatowa Państwowej Straży Pożarnej w Bolesławcu recorded:
- 85 fires in residential buildings
- 30 vehicle fires
- 32 forest fires
- 57 agricultural fires.
Local hazards occurred, among other places, in:
- 39 public-utility buildings
- 224 residential buildings
- 13 production and warehouse buildings
- 206 involved vehicles (e.g. road accidents)
- 272 occurred in other buildings.
For comparison, in 2015, 1332 incidents were recorded: 628 fires, 637 local hazards and 67 false alarms.
Units of the Państwowa Straż Pożarna Rescue and Firefighting Unit in Bolesławiec, units of the Volunteer Fire Service from across our county, and units of the Military Fire Service from Świętoszów took part in rescue and firefighting operations. Some operations were conducted in cooperation with firefighting units from outside the county. Our firefighter-rescuers also supported their colleagues in operations in neighboring counties.