YOU “Latvian railway“(LDz) will organize a large-scale exercise at the Šķirotava station on Thursday, July 23, in which the readiness and ability of operational services to cooperate with each other to prevent an ecological disaster on the public railway infrastructure will be tested.
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In order to check the readiness of the participants involved in the Civil Protection System for coordinated action and to strengthen cooperation in disaster management, not only a large number of LDz employees will participate in the training, but also the State Fire and Rescue Service, National Guard 1. Riga brigades, State Police, Employees of the Riga Municipal Police, as well as the State Environmental Service.
During the training, the derailment of a tank with dangerous goods will be simulated, as a result of which a dangerous substance has leaked from the tank and ignited.
The task of the operational services will be to locate and extinguish the fire, to locate the leakage of dangerous goods from the tank and eliminate its consequences, to pump the remaining dangerous goods from the damaged tank into the valid tank, as well as to put the rolling stock on the rails according to certain requirements.
LDz urges the residents not to worry, because during the training the ecological catastrophe will be simulated and no danger will be created to the environment or the residents.
Training at the Sorting Station will start at 10 am.
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