Almaty firefighters received the new special equipments

During the visit to the specialized fire department No. 15 of the Alatau district, the governor of Almaty was informed that the new special equipment is equipped with unique emergency rescue and special equipment. For example, fire ladders AL-32 are designed to evacuate and extinguish fires in multi-storey buildings, and road tankers are all-terrain vehicles to extinguish fires in the foothills and country arrays. In turn, the Toyota Hilux Quick Response cars are successfully used in autoloaders and are on fire first before the arrival of the main forces, equipped with a fine water distribution system, which at times improves the quenching efficiency with small water reserves.

"Ensuring security in the country's largest metropolis is one of the priorities of the Almaty 2020 Development Program. We have placed a great emphasis on material and technical equipment - this is the renewal of rolling stock, the introduction and use of new advanced technologies. At the same time, the most important wealth of the Department for Emergency Situations is its personnel. You have a very important and important work that involves risks and it is up to you to make Almaty safe for our citizens," said Bauyrzhan Baibek.

In turn, the head of the Emergency Situations Department of the city Serik Aubakirov noted that earlier for the first time in Kazakhstan special motorcycles were purchased for Almaty firemen. For 7 months, thanks to the rapid reaction means, 69 fires were extinguished, 9 of them on motor vehicles, 2 human lives were saved by motorcyclists.

He also said that for the cardinal solution of the mudflow hazard, on the initiative of the Almaty’s governor, two dams will be erected over three rift-prone gorges in the coming years and one will be reconstructed. The issue of stabilizing the channel of the Kargaly River has been resolved. In addition, for the first time automated monitoring of mudflow hazard will be introduced in Almaty. Acquired pumps of increased productivity allowed to carry out work on pumping water on 9 breakwater lakes simultaneously.

"Financially reinforced engineering solution for dismantling the lintel of moraine lake No. 6 allowed to reduce the volume of the lake from 310 to 140 thousand cubes. Previously, an explosive lake will never accumulate the previous volume, because the presence of a diversion channel in the bridge made the lake transit. A similar work was carried out on Lake 13 Bis, where the volume was reduced from 182,000 to 38,000 cubic meters," Serik Aubakirov added.

It also became known that next year two new fire units will be built on the allocated land plots in Nauryzbay and Bostandyk districts.