civil defense

A day before the earthquake in Myanmar, Taiwan’s government staged civil defense drills on how to respond to a major disaster.

In the 70 days before the cease-fire took effect, Aitaroun lost 51 Hezbollah operatives fighting there and elsewhere in the south, along with 16 women, 10 civil defense workers and five children.

For example, Singapore’s strict fire prevention laws, enforced by an active civil defense force, offer lessons in how to stop fires before they start.

The Eisenhower administration, busy building a civil defense network in the middle of the Cold War, worked with Congress to pass new disaster relief laws.

The Palestinian civil defense in Gaza said in a statement on Wednesday evening that its rescue and emergency crews were trying to extinguish a fire that engulfed the tents of displaced people after the strike.