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THW-Experts Arrive in Port-au-Prince
Bonn - January 15. On Friday midday, local time, THW-experts arrived in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. The experts of the Rapid Deployment Unit Water and Sanitation Abroad (SEEWA) are starting with the necessary preparations for the installation of mobile water treatment plants.
(15.01.2010)
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THW Sends another Team to Haiti
Bonn – January 14. Today, on Thursday, a Rapid Deployment Unit Water and Sanitation Abroad (SEEWA) of THW is leaving for Haiti. Ten experts in drinking water and infrastructure take with them mobile drinking water treatment plants, mobile laboratories for water analysis and equipment for the repair of the water infrastructure. The purification plants can produce about 6,000 litres of drinking water per hour, which allows the supply of up to 30,000 people with water. The THW experts will explore further mission options on site. The heavy earthquake, which happened on Tuesday, has destroyed large parts of the infrastructure on Haiti.
(14.01.2010)
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Missions
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THW Reconnaissance Team on its Way to Haiti
Bonn – January 13. At the request of the Foreign Office, a THW reconnaissance team of four left for Port-au-Prince this afternoon. The experts from the sectors of international mission coordination, hydraulic and building construction and logistics shall support the work of the German Embassy on site and identify options for future THW missions. The operations centre of THW's management in Bonn has already started preparations for a possible mission of the Rapid Deployment Unit Water and Sanitation Abroad (SEEWA).
(13.01.2010)
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THW Taking Stock after Low “Daisy”
Bonn - 11 January. Over the weekend, more than 650 voluntary THW-helpers nationwide dealt with the impact of low “Daisy”. “Contrary to anticipations, low “Daisy” has not lead to chaos over Germany. Focus of THW’s mission was on the north-east of the Republic. Sadly, there were a good amount of drivers who, in spite of severe weather warnings, had headed for the roads. On the A20 alone, THW rescued 170 people from their cars who, because of the snow, were trapped“, summarises THW-President, Mr Albrecht Broemme. THW’s local sections were active on Fehmarn, in Kassel or in Neuenburg on the river Rhine to support the authorities who had asked for help.
(11.01.2010)
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EU-Team Starts Work in Albania
Bonn – January 9. From today, a reconnaissance and coordination team of the European Union (EU) has been on a mission in Albania in order to support the south-east European country in its fight against floods. During the previous days, rain falls and early snowmelt had lead to serious flooding in the north of Albania.
(09.01.2010)
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Fire in Distribution Station: THW Secures Power Supply
Oberlungwitz - 4 January. After a fire in a distribution station in Oberlungwitz near Chemnitz, the power supply for thousands of consumers from the surrounding area failed on Monday. Since then, THW has fed, with the help of their own emergency power systems, power into the public network and has thus secured the electricity supply in the affected area.
(04.01.2010)
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Stock Taking 5 Years after the Tsunami
Bonn – December 23. At Christmas it will be five years since the devastating tsunami catastrophe happened in south-east Asia. After the seaquake in the Indian Ocean, the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) administered immediate humanitarian help in Thailand, Sri Lanka, on the Maldives and in Indonesia. After a total number of 25 projects, THW’s rehabilitation activities in Indonesia were finished in 2009 with the completion of a school in Banda Aceh.
(23.12.2009)
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Winter Chaos Caused by Snow and Ice
Bonn – December 21. The snowy weekend before today’s calendar beginning of winter caused accidents and miles and miles of traffic jams on many motorways and A-roads. As a civil protection organisation of the Federal Government with 700 locations in Germany, THW is quickly able, in extreme weather conditions, to reach trapped people and to tow away stuck vehicles.
(21.12.2009)
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Last Phase of EU-USAR-Project
Mainz/Mellieha – December 11. Last week, two months after the fictitious earthquake in “Euphoria”, THW staff met the Maltese rescue team S.P.I.D.E.R in Mellieha in order to follow up the international exercise. At the beginning of October, the helpers from Malta had practiced the search for trapped people in the town of Wesel, together with units from THW, the Netherlands and Great Britain. The exercise was part of the EU-project “Development of a multinational Search and Rescue Unit” (EU-USAR).
(11.12.2009)
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EU-Project: Cooperation with Poland
Stettin – December 3. Catastrophes which do not stop at frontiers, for example floods, can best be fought as a joint effort. That is why, last Thursday, THW-President, Mr Albrecht Broemme, met General, Mr Wiesław Leśniakiewicz, chief commander of the governmental Polish fire brigade (PSP) in the Polish town of Stettin. During a work conference, they were given the latest information about the EU-project “Cross-border measures for the fighting of floods”.
(03.12.2009)
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