Project will be implemented in Lithuania Municipality of Skuodas district and in Latvia Municipality of Vainode. These administration units are bound by Lithuanian-Latvian border. A low index of economic activity and social problems are typical there. Accordingly, these municipalities, in order to solve public problems, have to look for outside financing as local budgets are very small and municipalities constantly experience financial shortage. Public service of fire safety will be modernized with the help of this project.

The aim of project is to ensure safe environment for the residents of Lithuanian and Latvian border region. Districts, fire departments of which are planned to be reinforced, have low resident density, particularly bad transport infrastructure (road less places, etc.), forested areas, numerous peat bogs, big areas of fields not used in agriculture. The latter factors cause serious risk in regard to fire safety: fields, forests and peat bogs get constantly on fire where fire-fighting efficiency is quite low due to bad access to places of natural disaster and poor state of infrastructure of fire-fighting departments.
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Project will be implemented in Lithuania Municipality of Skuodas district and in Latvia Municipality of Vainode. These administration units are bound by Lithuanian-Latvian border. A low index of economic activity and social problems are typical there. Accordingly, these municipalities, in order to solve public problems, have to look for outside financing as local budgets are very small and municipalities constantly experience financial shortage. Public service of fire safety will be modernized with the help of this project.

The aim of project is to ensure safe environment for the residents of Lithuanian and Latvian border region. Districts, fire departments of which are planned to be reinforced, have low resident density, particularly bad transport infrastructure (road less places, etc.), forested areas, numerous peat bogs, big areas of fields not used in agriculture. The latter factors cause serious risk in regard to fire safety: fields, forests and peat bogs get constantly on fire where fire-fighting efficiency is quite low due to bad access to places of natural disaster and poor state of infrastructure of fire-fighting departments.

During the project integrated system of responding to natural disasters in the municipalities of Skuodas and Vainode will be established, where fire rescue stations of Ylakiai and Vainode will play the most active part. In these stations it is planned to renew fire rescue equipment: change vehicles, purchase new means necessary for efficient work. In political level, agreements of mutual help in cases of natural disasters between municipalities of Skuodas and Vainode will be signed.

In long time period it will ensure quality public services for the residents of that region, and enable to respond faster to dangers what will be a serious basis for protection of residents‘ property and environment. Read less

Within the Project:

• A fire cars for Ylakiai fire brigade and for Vainode fire brigade have bee bought and equipped.
• Trainings of fire brigades have been held.

Vainodes Novada Dome

Raiņa 23a, Vainode, LV-3435, Latvia Tel.: +37163464954 Fax: +37163464954 Website: www.vainode.lv Contact person: Oskars Zvejs E-mail: padome@vainode.lv