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Volunteer fire brigades play a significant role in Croatia

  

 The structure of the Croatian Fire Service stands as follows:

*1,788 volunteer fire brigades in cities, towns and municipalities*66 industrial volunteer fire brigades
*56 public (state) fire brigades in major cities*55 career industrial fire brigades
*4 national intervention units
*Special task fire fighting units, including fire fighting flying units such as 4 Canadairs for example.

More than 62,000 fire fighters operate in those units:*58,800 volunteer fire fighters
*2,144 career fire fire fighters in the public (state) fire brigades
*1,054 fire fighters in industrial fire brigades
The Croatian fire service carries out some 14,000 interventions every year, among them: 8,000 are fire fighting interventions, 6,000 are technical operations and some 100 of them are interventions due to hazardous materials.The local government is in charge of fire protection and fire extinguishing in Croatia, and gets support from regional and national government offices as regards the supply of equipment and large-scope interventions.Important notice: the first volunteer fire brigade was established in Varaždin in 1864 and is the pillar of the Croatian Fire Fighting Association which was founded in 1874.


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