4 drowning accidents in Fujairah during the first half

Fujairah Civil Defense is ready to deal with emergency accidents during the summer.

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Civil Defense teams in Fujairah, in cooperation with the General Command of Fujairah Police, carried out four rescue operations since the beginning of the year until the end of last June, which resulted in the death of one person and the rescue of three others. The Director of the Civil Defense Department in Fujairah, Brigadier Ali Obaid Al Tunaiji, confirmed the readiness of the Civil Defense Department in Fujairah to deal with emergency incidents of fire and drowning during the summer, according to work programs approved and followed by the General Command of Civil Defense, including its annual plan to reduce drowning accidents, from By achieving rapid response to drowning accidents and emergencies. The emirate witnessed a decrease in drowning accidents during the past year, by 57%, and by three accidents, which resulted in the registration of two deaths, while during 2019 seven drowning accidents were recorded, resulting in one death, and the rescue of seven people, according to a statistic of the Security Department. Al-Bahri, in the Statistical Yearbook of the Fujairah Statistics Center.

Al Tunaiji stressed that the decrease in marine accidents last year was due to the speed of response, as a result of covering marine points in all regions of the emirate, and the readiness of the responsible authorities to serve members of the public in the event of any emergency situation, in addition to the awareness campaigns targeted by the responsible authorities to preserve beachgoers. during the summer period.

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