civil protection

The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was started in 1989, after a call by the United Nations General Assembly for a day to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. Held every 13 October, the day…

Bad weather in Piedmont: a deplorable and sad story where French first responders failed to intervene after help requests of 40 Italians in danger because of the bad weather. This behaviour forced Italian responders to an unusual trespass.

Today the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) published an analysis on the populations affected by climate change. Floods, droughts and hurricanes put on their knees many regions worldwide.

Floods affect Sudan. Interventions of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) with the coordination of the NGO Coopi in five villages.

Cyclone Teddy is expected to remain a powerful post-tropical typhoon and now he is moving towards Atlantic Canada and Nova Scotia.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland emergency responders have a new ally: it is a brand new app to improve patient's localization.

In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan affected countries in the Sea of Bengal. The storm was the second most powerful the region has seen in two decades, affecting over 12 million people in four countries. That's why Bangladesh understood the…

The fire in the refugee camp in Lesbos was a disaster also because of too men, women, children, elderly and sick people forced on the asphalt, under the sun all day long, without tents or blankets at night and without chemical baths or…

After 40 days from the Beirut dock explosion, the International Committee of Red Cross in Lebanon declared that its food stocks caught fire during the blast. However, this did not stop Red Cross in providing relief.

In the refugee camp of Moria, in Lesbos (Greece), a new fire broke out after 6 p.m., possibly caused by the explosion of some gas tank used by the refugees to cook.