On March 18, 2024, employees of environmental and forest institutions of East Kazakhstan, Abay and Pavlodar regions underwent training courses in Ust-Kamenogorsk on the basis of the training center of the M.Gabdullin Academy of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On the first day of training, the students of the courses were told аbout:
1. Classification of forest fires, conditions of occurrence and development of forest fires;
2. General concepts of fire prevention in forests. Classification of fire barriers. Cleaning of felling areas and cleaning of out-of-section debris. Arrangement of forest roads. Create protective fire bands by controlled annealing. Arrangement of fire water bodies. Arrangement of a network of fire stations, towers, masts, early detection systems;
3. Regulation of the work of forest fire services. Determining the location of a forest fire using navigation instruments and a forest plantation plan. Objective monitoring devices, their operation procedure;
4. Communication system organization. Types and means of communication. Principle of operation of VHF radio stations. Tactical and technical characteristics of radio stations used in forestry;
5. Procedure for collection, processing, transfer and storage of information. Types of operational information. Radio Rules;
6. The procedure for organizing the work of the fire extinguishing headquarters. Functional duties of the head of forest fire extinguishing, members of the operational fire extinguishing headquarters and heads of combat areas in a fire. Algorithm of interaction between services and departments in organizing forest fire extinguishing.