Air traffic has slowed down or virtually halted at some airports due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, it still holds true that the number of passengers moving at airports is [...]
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Forest and domestic fires are not the only cases when a fire is terribly dangerous. The annual damage caused by commercial property fires in the United States alone was estimated [...]
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Extreme natural phenomena have always threatened humanity. Today, despite having numerous ways to respond to them, the frequency of disasters is dramatically increasing due to climate change. The number of [...]
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Ports are places of intense human activity and cargo transport. The busiest Europe's seaport, Rotterdam, handles more than 12 million containers a year (the so-called TEUs, twenty-foot equivalent units ). [...]
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There is no doubt that electronic sirens are useful for more than a single purpose. Besides emergency warning, they find their applications in many other places such as large industrial [...]
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Sirens in towns are usually perceived by ordinary people only during their tests at the beginning of each month. In fact, alarm systems consisting of sirens (whether modern electric and [...]
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It is the national government that fulfils the mass public warning function in emergencies in the Slovak Republic, using the national early warning and notification system SEHIS, which contains a network of [...]
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Water dams perform several vital functions. They generate electricity (roughly one-fifth of all energy in the world) and allow for water flow to be regulated for the purpose of irrigation [...]
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Several processes take place behind every fire-fighting operation. From the very moment a person dials an emergency number in an emergency, the relevant fire station, their crews, must be notified. [...]
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The use of warning sirens is most frequently associated with natural disasters (such as fires, floods, and other similar emergencies) or with dangerous human-made events (gas or chemical leaks, for [...]
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