VENICE | FIRE BRIGADE: IN VENETO 650 IN ACTION FOR THE NATIONAL EXERCISE – ANTENNA TRE
13/11/2021 VENICE – The third national exercise of the firefighters has ended, in which 650 firefighters from Veneto took part. || 180 operators per day with 7 different scenarios on the regional territory for a total of over 650 operators. These are the numbers of the National exercise in which the Venetian firefighters also took part, which began on Tuesday and ended yesterday, promoted by the central management for the emergency, with the involvement of the interregional management and all the commands of the Veneto plus the personnel of the Protection and the Red Cross.The exercise aimed to test disaster response capacity with the mobilization of regional mobile columns. During the four days, all the scenarios were tested: the implementation of the Incident Command System, the readiness of activation of the resources, the verification of the internal and external communication flow, the use of specific individual protection devices. The checks of the hardware and software systems supplied and of the data. In Favaro Veneto at the former Cosenz fort, the firefighters operated in an accidental scenario with chemical risk: the staff of the regional and provincial NBCR units of the various commands during the simulations detected toxic substances, providing for confinement and recovery. In addition to the rescue of a person involved in the contaminated area. (Report by Ilaria Marchiori)