Course about TPL & Water Treatment Device

Friday 22nd October, some members of FWB Spain attended to a refresher course (in Malaga city) about the use of the Trapped Person Locator (TPL) and the water treatment device&system.

If you wanna take a look at pictures, go to this link.

FWB SPAIN MEMBERS&VOLUNTEERS' WORK DESCRIPTION

Firefighters always increase their education and training, and make maximum use of available resources to reduce the impact of disasters at the local level. Volunteer firefighters do the same at an international scale and are one of the first lines of defense.

According to the adage "a picture is worth a thousand words", we would like to share with you this video that we created in FWB Spain with the aim of summarizing and presenting the different work areas of our organization.

We hope you'll like it.

Not only Humanitarian Aid, but...

"WE ARE HERE TO SAVE YOUR ASS"

Firefighters aren’t super men or unusual men, but it’s true we are made of sterner stuff because when everybody goes out of a building, ship, boat or whatever, we enter without delay with a single purpose: to save lives and belongings of others.

We always risk our life since we leave the fire station trying to get as soon as possible the destination, dodging traffic and drivers and trying not to cause unnecessary risks until we come back to the fire station safe and sound.

"UPRISING" - MUSE

There are many cases where to say 'NO' to situations that we don’t accept or with ones we disagree can trigger the use of force or psychological abuse by those who want to force us to act against our principles.

We can understand this song by Muse, as a vindication of the dignity of human beings and as a "critical review" of the world where we live in and attitudes that should be mitigated.

THE POWER OF A SIGNATURE

"Your signature is powerful than you think"

Take a look at this video and you'll understand what this sentence means...

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DELEGATIONS AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF FWB SPAIN

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, MALAGA:

• President: Miguel Rey Pérez
mijuana@gmail.com
Telephone: 618654325 / 630942307.

• Vice-president: Lorenzo Álvarez Rojo.
larfire@gmail.com
Telephone: 618654329 / 607815222

• Economic Vice-president: Juan Manuel Ravina Vergara.
elyeti@yetiaventura.com / jumarave@hotmail.com
Telephone: 618654327 / 952229323.

• Secretary: Maria García.
meryboe@gmail.com
Telephone: 618654326 / 657998535.

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DELEGATIONS:

• DELEGATION IN TENERIFE

Delegate: Reyes de Miguel Renedo.
himareyes@hotmail.com
Telephone; 677509407


• DELEGATION IN ALBACETE

Delegate: Luis Enrique Utiel
leutiel@hotmail.com
Telephone; 627905035


• DELEGATION IN BARCELONA

Delegate: Clemente Pérez Costea.
bomberossinfronteras.cat@telefonica.net
Telephone: 607810411

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LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES:

• REPRESENTATIVE IN VALENCIA

Ignacio Iturriaga García.
iiturriaga@gmail.com
Telephone: 616990505.


• REPRESENTATIVE IN CASTELLON

Javier Sans Borras.
javisanz75@telefonica.net
Telephone: 600415081.


• REPRESENTATIVE IN ISLAS BALEARES

Joan Rosello Más.
jrossellomas@yahoo.es / joan63@ozu.es
Telephone: 639383925.


• REPRESENTATIVE IN GALICIA

José Torres Fernández
firefighter@telefonica.net
Telephone: 639506040.


• REPRESENTATIVE IN TOLEDO

Francisco Velamazán Cabrero
fvelamazan@hotmail.com
Telephone: 656316578

FIREFIGHTERS WITHOUT BORDERS SPAIN (NGO)

Joe Alamo Granado, a Secondary School student, is a boy who dreams to become a firefighter. Until that day will arrive, he wanted to express what this job means for him through this video full of images and words that summarize it perfectly.

From here, we want to thank him for his words and to congratulate him on this video. At the same time, we encourage him to follow his ideals and to keep fighting for his dreams to become true.

We hope you will like this video as much as us.

Regards,

LINKIN PARK - "Not Alone"

With the song ‘Not Alone’, LINKIN PARK wanted to put its grain of sand to the rehabilitation training in Haiti through its music.

We want to share this video with you and we hope it will not leave you indifferent to the terrible tragedy that this country suffered last January.

TSUNAMI. DECEMBER 2004.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing nearly 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 15 meters high. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest hit, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismograph.This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed, between 8.3 and 10 minutes.It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1 cm and triggered other earthquakes as far away as Alaska.

PROJECT IN GALICIA (REGION IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SPAIN). 2007.

This was a Project created by Joseph Torres. It consisted of providing workforce protection and personal safety equipments, such as fire fighting clothing, to the firefighters in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
After having stayed in this city several months in the aftermath of the tsunami in 2004, Joseph promised those local firefighters to bring them suitable clothing to work, given the fact that they only had three plastic intervention jackets and rubber fire fighting boots.
He went throughout every Fire Station in Galicia and he got 1,275kg of workforce clothing donated by different Fire Stations and Firefighters coming from the 4 Galician provinces. Therefore, Joseph sent the safety material collected to his counterparts in Aceh despite the multiple bureaucratic and logistic problems he had to face.
In the end, a project and a person responsible of it were the only ones that made the completion of the project possible.

DOCTORS OF THE WORLD SPAIN. INDONESIA. 2005.

After the tsunami in 2004, hundreds of NGOs worldwide deployed to Indonesia during the post-emergency phase to undertake several tasks.
On the one hand, Doctors of the World Spain was among them and it worked hardly in different areas of Sumatra, this time in Calang and Banda Aceh to be precise, regions highly struck by the earthquake. The creation of permanent hospitals to treat local people in those areas was one of its purposes.
On the other hand, members of Firefighters without Borders Spain contributed to ensure that those fixed purposes were complied with and that the completion of the Doctors of the World Spain projects was successful.

EARTHQUAKE IN PADANG ON INDONESIA’S SUMATRA ISLAND

An earthquake of 7.6 in magnitude on the Richter scale. Firefighters without Borders Spain and United Firefighters without Borders Spain were at the seismic activity’s epicentre. In this occasion, rescue operations were carried out as well as different home rehabilitation projects, tents for schools and water purification methods were developed with posteriority.