Fire Safety and Fire-fighting Law. General Provisions

 

Many countries all over the world have one of the highest fire death and injury rates.  Fire - in the form of flames and smoke - is the second leading cause of accidental death in the home.

A lot of people die each year in home fires. Every year, there are thousand residential fires serious enough to be reported to fire departments. More than 90 percent of residential fire deaths and injuries result from fires in family houses and apartments.

 

Fire Safety and Fire-fighting Law determines the system of fire safety, fire-fighting and rescue services and organizations, tasks and competence of natural persons and legal persons in the field of fire safety and fire-fighting, as well as the structure, functions of the State Fire Fighting Service of EMERCOM of Russia, course of service, obligations, rights, legal protection and social guarantees of State specialized civil servants serving in the State Fire Fighting Service of EMERCOM of Russia.

Concept of Fire Safety and Fire-fighting.

Fire safety is conformity to the requirements specified in regulatory enactments in relation to the prevention, successful extinguishing of fire and reduction of the consequences thereof.

Fire-fighting is an organized activity, which shall be performed to eliminate fire, rescue natural persons and material valuables, as well as to protect the environment during the extinguishing of fire.

The main tasks of the State Fire Fighting Service of EMERCOM of Russia are realization the state policy in the field of fire safety, the state control in the field of fire safety, investigation of fire affairs and fire-fighting.

Fire fighting has several basic skills: prevention, self preservation, rescue, preservation of property and fire control.

 

Words and word combinations:

law – закон

general provisions – общие положения

fire - огонь, пожар

injury- рана, ушиб, ранение, травма

flame - огонь, пламя

smoke - дым

fire departments – пожарные части

residential - жилой

accidental death – смерть в результате несчастного случая

determine - определять

the State Fire Fighting Service of  EMERCOM of  Russia -  государственная

                                                            противопожарная служба МЧС России

competence – компетенция

natural persons –  физические лица

 legal persons – юридические лица

conformity – соответствие

legal protection and social guarantees – юридическая защита и социальные гарантии

civil servants – государственные служащие

obligations – обязательства

regulatory enactments – регулирующие постановления

material valuables – материальные ценности

reduction of the consequences thereof – сокращения последствий этого

 prevention – предотвращение, предупреждение

 self- preservation - самосохранение

 rescue –спасение, выручка

 preservation of property  - сохранение собственности

 fire control- управление (контроль) огнем

 

Assignment

Переведите  следующие слова и словосочетания.

an organized activity, rescue services and organizations,  successful extinguishing of fire, prevention,  to protect the environment during the extinguishing of fire, the state control in the field of fire safety, rescue natural persons and material valuables, investigation of fire affairs and fire-fighting.

 

2. Найдите эквиваленты следующих слов:

1. Обнаружение	1. detect
	2. detector
	3. detection
2. Тушение	1. extinguishing
	2. extinguisher
	3. extinguished
3. Организация	1. organization
	2. organize
	3. organizer
4. Dangerous	1. опасность
	2. опасный
	3. опасно
5. Impossible	1. возможно
	2. невозможно
	3. невозможный
6.Protection	1. защищать
	2. защита
	3. защитный

 

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