Final preparations for the international NATO exercise of civil protection and disaster relief, which will be held from September 25th to September 29th in Tuzla Canton, are going as planned.
As one of the final activities is the education of the LEMA center, handlers of rescue operations, safety officers and national team leaders from the territory of Tuzla Canton, which were prepared by the most responsible people in the safety and rescue system of this canton and which will participate in the aforementioned exercise.
The multi-day exercise will be held in several locations in Tuzla, Zivince and Lukvac. The goal is to check the capacities of states for disaster relief operations.
According to the executive director of NATO exercises in BiH Samir Huseinbasic, 700 participants from our country and 600 participants from 30 other countries will take part.
They will also simulate floods and stronger earthquakes, collapse of objects and traffic accidents on land and on water.
“This is the largest NATO exercise and it is necessary to highlight that it is civil in nature and that it has nothing to do with military and political activities,” Huseinbasic noted.
He emphasized that this exercise was initiated and accepted from the experiences from the floods from 2014 in order for our country to evaluate the feasible opportunities and capacities for assistance in the case of natural disasters which could happen again.
“Due to global climate change, we’re probably going to have similar dangers and when such natural disasters are in in question, we have to be ready. We’ve seen that the United States of America, as the superpower, are nonetheless defenseless in the face of nature,” he continued.
(Source: Klix.ba)
