Dozens of persons rescued from earthquake during simulations held in Buiucani district

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6,5 degrees, Richter scale, was simulated on Thursday, June 29, in a zone of Buiucani district from the capital. The squads of the Exceptional Situations Department (DSE), civil protection services, rescuers and firemen got involved, saving victims blocked under ruins, extinguishing fires and repairing pipes damaged by water. At the same time, everyone was involved deeply at the accumulation lakes dams, where the cracks as result of the earthquake endangered many localities, especially Chisinau. The simulation of the disaster was held within the tactical application of civil protection and fire extinguishing, organized by DSE. The chairman of the Republican Commission for Exceptional Situations, Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev, and the inhabitants of the area participated in the actions coordinated by the rescuers. The atmosphere on the simulated stage is similar to a real one, but beneath ruins there were puppets, de-blocked and bandaged by sanitary teams. According to DSE head Andrei Sumleanschi, the goal of the action was to check the activity of the special alarm installations, the extent of implication in case of a huge magnitude earthquake, water reserves for intervention, as well as the protection measures of the staff involved in liquidating the consequences. Another aim was the training of the commissions for exceptional situations, local public authorities, commanders of civil protection formations, operative centers for urgent situation of businessmen, as well as involvement of the managers of institutions and businessmen in making intervention decisions. On the whole, about 140 DSE teams, teams and firemen’s cars, SA „Termocom”, „Apa-Canal”, „Chisinău-Gaz”, Union Fenosa, and Emergency Service took part in the intervention. On Thursday, in Truseni village, at the poultry factory „Larsan-Nor” SRL there were organized actions of civil protection in a potential focus of avian influenza, and on the beach and dam of the accumulation lake Ghidighici there were simulated rescue operations.