In 2001, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism was established, fostering cooperation among national civil protection authorities across Europe. The Mechanism currently includes all 28 EU Member States in addition to Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Turkey has…
The PowerPoint Presentations of our Final Conference are now on line. You can find them on our downloads page. The film made during the Large Scale Exercise
Today the four partners of the MIRG-EU project officially ended the three year Interreg IVA 2Seas project with a final conference in Vlissingen. The various presenters looked back on the results of the project,
The Dutch and Belgian MIRGs had their winch training in Belgian Koksijde. If you want to feel a little bit what the team members did during this training, than watch this movie from Ton den Breejen on You Tube
On 18 June our Maritime Incident Response Groups from Kent (UK), Zeeland (NL), Ghent, Antwerp, Beveren (BE) Pas de Calais and the French Navy (FR) ran a successful exercise on board DFDS Seaways’ cruise ferry, Princess Seaways.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service made a short clip of the training of the MIRG-EU team on the simulator in Marck-en-Clais. You can watch it here.
It is 9h50 AM on 15 May when Henri Poortvliet’s pager beeps. Message: Priority three, exercise, report at fire station. Henri: ‘We already were at the fire station where we were briefed in advance about safety measures and some other things.
In April and May the MIRGs from the MIRG-EU partner countries did their final rehearsals on the simulator in Marck en Calais. The teams went systematically through all the operational procedures.
On 18 June the teams from the partner countries will be confronted with a simulated incident on board DFDS Seaways’ cruise ferry Princess Seaways, which normally operates between IJmuiden in the Netherlands and Newcastle in the UK.
One hand for oneself and one for the ship. That was the first thing Henri Poortvliet was taught during his ship-to-ship-transfer course. ‘That first lessen I was already familiar with.