TOGETHER IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS AND TIME OF PREVENTION
11.04.2012
Palilula Municipality within the cooperation and support activities to the institutions of public interest in the city, donated a set of computer equipment to the services of the Emergency Situations Ministry of Interior Affairs in Nis, Serbia. On this occasion, president PhD Igor Novakovic with his associates visited this was the Police Department and expressed his gratitude for the support activities of Palilula to the head of the Department Zarko Damjanovic,

"We in our Municipality decided to work with the Office for Emergency Management together in education of the population in this area-emphasized at a meeting with reporters president Novakovic. According to one Chinese saying "misfortune never comes alone" the rule is that the poorest people in these situations, due to poor quality of material objects and faulty electrical installations, usually suffer the most. In this we made sure this winter, when it came to natural disasters. According to the President Novakovic thanks to the understanding of the Municipal Emergency Management the Municipality has received fuel and food parcels, blankets for the most vulnerable residents. According to records of the Center for social welfare and municipal government more than 5000 citizens of Palilula barely make ends meet as a natural disaster only worsened the situation. The most important was, says Novakovic to reach the people in these situations because they were threatened to secure the right to existence - a basic human right. They helped us together with Serbian Army, Red Cross, socially responsible companies, but the help of the emergency to us was most needed.

According to Zarko Damnjanovic, Chief of Emergency Management City of Nis, cooperation with local governments, civil society organizations is a priority of work. Here, when we talk about the fires in the open, the number of fires compared to last year increased by 50 percent, but when it comes to fires in buildings for now they are in slight increase - said the head of Damnjanović. In recent months, most fires were recorded on the facilities and hospitals in Toponica in the building at Starca Vujadina. The cause of both fires is a wiring fault, but often it is the human factor. One of the tasks of the Board is to educate people and performance demonstration exercise on high buildings or public buildings. Every month we have planned activities, unfortunately there is poor turnout of citizens and residents.
Another aspect of the instructions on the procedures for citizens in the time or during natural disasters such as when critical issues are floods, fires. The next form is educating children in schools and kindergartens. Emergency Management, in the words of Chief Zarko Damnjanovic is doing everything within the limits of financial resources, within the budget, to procure the necessary equipment, whether it comes to personal protective equipment or firework vehicles. Condition can always be better, but this means that we have maximum benefit. We try to make it right. There are problems with spare parts. Simply the problem is financial. This indicates that the Administration was insufficient and firefighters. In EU countries the norm, on the 1000 population comes as a firefighter and it is not the case here. This budget is still a problem because there is currently no possibility to create new jobs.

That is why the level of cooperation between Palilula and Emergency Management is one we wanted, which is encouraging and we are very pleased with reported attention.