Ecuador: Foreign Firefighters Trained by Ecuadorians

Posted on June 14, 2011 • Filed under: Ecuador, Social Issues

According to Expreso.ec Ecuadorian firefighters teamed up with twenty members of the Military Firefighters from Maranhao, Brazil and four Argentineans in an operation called the International Course of Collapsed Structures. This operation was presented by the Ecuadorian Fire Academy in Guayaquil. Training included responses to situations such as earthquakes. In the training sessions disasters were simulated to rescue a victim, in certain situations. The police say that there was no bike and that a car hit the victim.Read Article

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