EPPR
Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Progress Report of The Russian
Federation Project
“DEVELOPMENT OF SAFETY
SYSTEMS IN IMPLEMENTATION
OF ECONOMIC AND
INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS”
International rescue exercises
«Barents Rescue 2009»
International rescue exercises «Barents
Rescue 2009» was held in Russia,
Murmansk region September 8-10,
2009.
It was the first large-scale international project
that has been implemented in the Arctic under
existing cooperation between Arctic countries in
Barents region. 384 participants: search and
rescue crews, fire teams, police teams, engineer
teams, aircraft and helicopter crews and 47 units
of equipment, including fire boats, aircrafts,
helicopters from the Russian Federation, Finland,
Norway and Sweden took part in the exercise.
The objective of «The Barents
Rescue 2009» was
to check functional use of the existing
cooperation, improve information
exchange, the level of coordination
of activities, learn practical
experiences of coordination and
rescue services in the Barents region
that can be used in cases of
emergency.
The exercises consisted of five stages
with various management aspects in
emergency cases
Stage 1
“Actions of functional and
territorial departments of
Murmansk Emercom in
case of radioactive
emission due to
destruction of a waste
container”
Stage 2
“Joint actions of
functional and
territorial
departments of
Murmansk
Emercom and
Rescue Services
of Kingdom of
Norway in case
of emergency at
sea”
Stage 3
“Joint actions of
authorities and
departments of
Murmansk Emercom
and rescue services
of the neighboring
countries in case of
a large traffic
accident with the
threat of radioactive
contamination”
Stage 4
“Joint actions of
authorities and
departments of
Murmansk
Emercom, rescue
services of Republic
of Finland and
Kingdom of Sweden
in case of a large
forest fire in the
bordering area”
Stage 5
“Joint actions of
authorities and
departments of
Murmansk
Emercom, rescue
services of the
neighboring
countries in case
of the fire
onboard and oil
spill in the sea”
The first stage was carried out in a
warning mode (ALARMEX).
This stage was short but the most
important. The objective of this stage
was to check efficiency of the system
of mutual warnings and interaction of
coordination and rescue services in
the Barents region in case of
emergency.
The second and following stages
were held in a field mode (FTX).
The participants of FTX completed the
following tasks: to improve readiness of
rescue teams for respond to different
emergency cases; to check accuracy of
the assumed time periods needed by
rescue teams to arrive in the place of the
accident; to improve skills of executive
officers in directing the group of rescue
teams in different emergency cases; to
train practical interaction of rescue teams
in different emergency cases.
The priority task was to exchange and
summarize practical experiences in
development and implementation of
international exercises.
Course of the Exercises is now under
analyses. Recommendations will be
developed for further interaction
improvement in real emergency
situation conditions.