The Ministry of Emergency Situations warns!

All summer, grandparents ensured the safety of children during the holidays. It's time to pay attention to the elderly.

On September 16, an information and awareness campaign "With Care for the Safety of the Small Motherland" will start in the republic and will last until October 4. The goal of the campaign is to prevent fires due to careless handling of fire and the death of elderly people in them.

Pensioners are one of the most important categories of the population that is under the close attention of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. To involve them in safety issues, rescuers use various forms of work, trying to reach every elderly person and involve them in the large-scale republican campaign "With Care for the Safety of the Small Motherland".

Campaign events will be held at markets, territorial centers for social services, post offices, mobile shops, cultural centers, and other facilities located in settlements.

To attract public interest in citizen safety issues, rescuers use various methods of conducting events. These include interactive training sessions with the demonstration of films and videos, "Safety Fairs," "Safe Village" or "Safe Yard" festivals, concerts, "Safety Chastooshki" show programs, and "SuperSTAR + YunSpas" or "Wisdom. Experience. Safety" contests.

This is just a small list of the events that rescuers will hold with elderly citizens as part of the "With Care for the Safety of the Small Motherland" campaign.

Dear citizens, pay attention to your elderly relatives, take care of their safety. Make sure that they use serviceable electrical appliances, that the stove equipment is in order, and that there is an autonomous fire alarm in the house (apartment).

The dacha season is coming to an end

All summer, Vitebsk residents spent time at their dachas and garden plots, diligently growing their harvest. The next stage is now due – tidying up the territory.

WorkersThe Vitebsk City Department for Emergency Situations cannot stand aside and offers to remind plot owners how to do it safely:

– To avoid becoming a hostage to an emergency situation in spring, start cleaning up now, but do not burn trash thoughtlessly. In any case, this should not be done when it is windy outside: a harmless flame can turn into huge damage. If the weather is favorable, before lighting a fire, choose a place that is far from nearby houses and outbuildings, place a bucket of water and a spade next to the fire, and if there is a fire extinguisher – use it. This way you have created safe conditions for its burning, however, do not forget that burning trash is a controlled process and you cannot leave "for your own business" for a minute. But when the fire goes out, to be sure, douse it with water.