Firefighters from Warta Bolesławiecka Summarize the Past Year

Another OSP unit from our county has decided to summarize the past year. In 2019, the firefighters from Warta Bolesławiecka responded as many as 127 times, giving them second place in this respect among OSP units in Bolesławiec County.

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Let us recall the summary of the past year prepared by firefighters from the City of Ceramics. As we read on the website of the County Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Bolesławiec:

Despite unfavorable weather conditions—with long periods without precipitation—the number of fires in the county fell from 599 in 2018 to 498 in 2019.

Of the 790 interventions in 2019 involving so-called local hazards, rescue operations were most often conducted at means of transport, in 229 cases, and in residential buildings, in 218 cases.

The number of false alarms increased from 77 to 100, caused, among other things, by the emergence of new buildings covered by fire monitoring in industrial areas.

The development of civilization also contributed to the increase in false reports, as unconfirmed alarms were generated by vehicle emergency notification systems, the so-called e-call, as well as reports following the faulty activation of carbon monoxide detectors in residential buildings.

Fires most often occurred in the “other buildings” category, which includes, among other things:

• freestanding waste containers—28 fires
• lawns and grass in non-agricultural areas—140 fires.

Unfortunately, there were also 119 fires in residential buildings, most of them recorded in detached or semi-detached houses, where improper use of heating equipment was often the presumed cause.

There were also 44 fires involving means of transport and 47 fires in forest areas. In 96 cases, arson was identified as the presumed cause of the fire (fires involving wasteland).

In addition to the PSP Rescue and Firefighting Unit in Bolesławiec, nine volunteer fire service units incorporated into the National Rescue and Firefighting System and 15 OSP units outside the system also carried out rescue interventions in the protected area of Bolesławiec County.

In addition, crews from the Military Fire Service in Świętoszów were also dispatched; under an agreement, it was incorporated into the National Rescue and Firefighting System in June 2019.

JRG crews in Bolesławiec responded to 406 fires and 679 local hazards in the county, and also attended 89 false alarms. In addition, JRG forces were dispatched 54 times to operations outside Bolesławiec County. OSP units, meanwhile, supported neighboring counties during 21 rescue operations.

Summary of OSP units’ participation in rescue and firefighting operations in 2019: