German development agency GIZ delivers fire fighting platform to aid evacuation in war-torn Kharkiv

The Kharkiv State Emergency Service received a hydraulic rescue platform, which can be used to extinguish fires and evacuate shelling victims from a height of 45 m.

Rubryka reports, citing the Facebook page of the State Emergency Service of the Kharkiv region — the region in Ukraine's northeast which has been under constant Russian shelling and airstrikes since Russia started its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and which endured a six-month-long Russian occupation till September 2022.

What is the problem?

Today, Kharkiv, as a city of a million people, is in dire need of new ladders and lifts, which will replace the old ones and will be able not only to increase the efficiency of liquidation of fires and shelling but also help to ensure the safety of personnel.

What is the solution?

Kharkiv State Emergency Service received a hydraulic fire fighting and rescue platform for evacuating people from a height of 45 m which will help local rescuers to eliminate fires and save people from buildings shelled by Russian forces.

How does it work?

Ukrainian rescuers say, fortunately, they have reliable friends. One of them is the German firefighter Nils Thal, who works alongside Kharkiv firefighters as a volunteer and understands the needs of local rescuers. 

Nils helped deliver a Rosenbauer B45 hydro-rescue platform to one of Kharkiv's divisions with the support of the German Society for International Cooperation (DIZ).

"The hydraulic platform is a vital part of the equipment to rescue people from great heights in the current war situation because many cities of Ukraine have very high residential buildings," said Nils Thal. "We transferred one of these to Kharkiv. Ukrainian firefighters will undergo training there and can transfer their work experience with such technology to colleagues from other regions." 

Rubryka reported that the southern Kherson region received four Bogun all-terrain vehicles from the United 24 project to evacuate the population from flooded areas after Russian troops blew up the dam on June 6.

Also, Japan purchased 14 specialized cars for the demining units of the State Emergency Service.

Earlier, Rubryka reported that the State Emergency Service rescuers received ten metal detectors from Germany.