EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI. 12th January, 2010

After the huge earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale and the constant aftershocks of magnitude 5 in the same scale that struck this side of the island, International Rescue teams begin to arrive to the zone to develop rescue services and a subsequent reconstruction.

GIRL RESCUED IN ALGERIA IN 2003

Rescue works carried out by FWB Spain members in Algeria.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECT IN AFGHANISTAN

Today, we would like to share with you a photo album about the project we developed in Afghanistan. It was a Medical Assistance Project in cooperation with the NGO Doctors of the World Spain.
On 26th December 2003, the Citadel of Bam, the biggest mud brick complex of the world and the bigger part of the town of Bam, was seriously damaged by an earthquake of 6.6 on the Richter scale. BBC informed that 70% of the modern town of Bam had been devastated. According to different media reports, the first figures of death people fluctuated between 70,000 and 80,000

EARTHQUAKE IN PERU. AUGUST 2007.

The 2007 Peru earthquake was a seismic activity dated on 15th August that lasted for about three minutes. Its epicentre was located along the coast of Peru: 40km (25 mi) west of Chincha Alta and 150km (93 mi) southeast of Lima at a hypocentre depth of 39km (24 mi). It was one of the hardest earthquakes that Peru has ever experienced; the strongest one, too (according to intensity and duration of vibrations), but not the most catastrophic one if we compare it with the previous deadly earthquake in 1970 which produced thousands of deaths.
This earthquake of 7.9 in magnitude on the Richter scale caused 1,500 deaths, almost 2,291 victims, 76,000 destroyed and uninhabitable homes, and 431,000 people were affected by. The most affected areas were the following provinces: Pisco, Ica, Chincha, Cañete, Yauyos, Huaytará and Castrovirreyna.

ROAD ACCIDENTS

If you wanna take a look at other types of FWB Interventions, click on this link for the images of some Road Accidents.

HOW WAS CREATED FIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS SPAIN?

In 1993, a group of professionals belonging to the Firefighters Corp of the Valencia Council asked the Valencian consistory for a Magirus fire engine dated from 1957, as a donation, given the fact that it went directly to the scrapyard.

Working with such a big enthusiasm and effort, this group adapted and repaired the Magirus for it to live its last big supportive adventure: going all over the immensity of the sub-Saharan desert to pay a visit to its counterparts in Burkina Faso (it carried food, medicines and school material) and discovering the reality of the Fire Stations in the Sahel region.

This first experience exceeded all the expectations. The Magirus not only complied with its purpose of sharing hope all over the sub-Saharan Africa desert, but kilometre after kilometre, it let this group of Valencian people open their eyes to a new reality: the need of projecting their solidarity beyond the limits of their professional action. From this day on, the NGO FIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS SPAIN was born and continues to live for that trip not to be considered an isolated fact, and the Magirus became its emblem.

MISSION STATEMENT

FIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS SPAIN (FWB SPAIN) is an NGO in favour of the solidarity and the support provided to the Development made up of career and volunteer firefighters from the Fire Extinction and Rescue Services and collaborators from other jobs, too, who share the following dedication of principles:
1. There is a wide range of personal and varied motivations for them to take part in the NGO, having as a binding site the belief that the training and the professional experience can help to the less privileged regions of the world.
2. They respect any kind of religious, ideological and political belief, but they do not submit to any of these, so the NGO FIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS SPAIN declares itself APOLITICAL and ACONFESSIONAL.
3. This organization accepts the principle of FRATERNITY and COLLABORATION among all the people of the world, and it bases its help on objective criteria without preferences of any kind. This help can be developed to regional, national and international scale.
4. The help will be requested and completely accepted by the local population who will take part actively, in every moment, in the project development. The members of the NGO FIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS SPAIN will not interfere in the local businesses of the region.
5. They will respect and appreciate the culture, the life style, the environment and the technology of the regions which are recipients of the help, adapting this one to the specific necessities of the place and adding their skills to the work they carry out. They promise to act as consciousness-raising elements of the situation of these regions in our society.
6. FWB Spain forms an autonomous association. It does not depend on any kind of pressure group, state, government, political or religious association, and any company or trade union, as well, both national and international scale.
7. FWB Spain will never render services to causes with military purposes or activities which infringe the environment or people’s dignity.
8. In an anonymous and volunteering way, the members of the NGO do not seek a prominent role with their actions and they do not pretend to get economical or professional benefits from this work. They control all risks derived from the projects they develop in other countries, and once they accept the mission, they commit themselves to carry it out from the beginning until the end. NGO funds will be exclusively used for its purposes.

A GRATITUDE LETTER FROM A SCHOOL IN PADANG

Translation of a letter received from a school in Padang, Indonesia.

Ampek Jirek, 12th October, 2009

On behalf of the School’s Director and the Teacher’s Board, as well as the School Committee, we would like to deeply thank: Firefighters Without Borders Spain and United Firefighters Without Borders Spain for the support and the help they gave us, because these ones had a core importance for our educational process, in order to improve our school system.

Ampek Jirek, 12th October, 2009

School’s Director 05/VII Koto

(Signature and Stamp of the Public Primary School 05, Padang Pariaman)

(Nurjani, A. Ma.Pd)

Government Employee Number 131140751