Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

Programme 2014 - 2020 Estonia - Russia ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

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Description (EN):

Seasonal fires in forests and bogs, dried grass burning in the Programme and project area are most defective emergencies during spring and summer as most of them are hard to reach and territories are quite big. High attendance of woods leads to numerous unregulated ignitions. Recreational zones and picturesque places located in project territory are factor of high danger. During spring and summer period the number of inhabitants and guests of the border territory increases to 4 times. Traditional historical type of dense wooden housing system in settlements and remote farms is a factor of increased fire danger. There are already examples of disconnections which result the huge fires and damage to nature and inhabitants. The institution of the volunteer rescue services have to be improved as the state fire service can´t be effective due to the long distances not only in high fire season. In cold winter risks of ignitions in old wooden houses with bad electric wiring are very high. The state services located in a long distance of in mainland, so volunteer rescue services (VRS) have to have good skills and equipment to localize and implement fire fighting activities before it comes out of the control. After administrative reforms in EE and RU transforming and improvement of common coordination of local rescue services (both the state and volunteer) are extremely needed. Preventive measures are always cheaper and more effective on local level. Overall Project objective is to improve living and leisure safety in RU-EE border area through complex of shared actions in risk management for forest and land fire protection. On administrative level project partners will improve mechanisms of local action to prevent or localize forest and land fires and protect inhabitants and territory from fires. Project foresees the complex of particular improvements of small municipal infrastructure for VRS. For a solution of problem of land and forest fires and dried grass burning it is planned to realize a complex of local preventive actions on both sides of border: - creation of the network from local voluntary fire-fighter teams for cooperation in Russia and Estonia; - creation the models for fire-fighting methods in different types or scenario (seasonal (hot summer and cold winter, woods, fields, settlements, islands etc.), updating the local thematic municipal programmes, improvement of local regulations and administrative acts (an example of Estonian party) regarding the voluntary fire teams, etc. to be used within the project territory and outside of it as a templates of showcases; - reduction of number of forestry connecting roads with main routes in timber-land as a good method for the control of the forests and reaction in emergency situations, the equipment of restrictions of road exits in woods, excavation or improvement of fire suppression ponds, plowing round settlements with bad ignition statistics, improvement of infrastructure for the firefighting facilities on the shore to provide operative reaction and localization of ignitions on the Narva river islands covered with woods and hard-to-reach remote territories and woods in Kirde-Eesti; - purchase of equipment for suppression and localization of the fires and ignitions, the modernization of mobile warning systems; creation of staff of public fire inspectors; - realization of a complex of public actions for prevention of the emergency situations and self-ignitions (the organization of information work with the population (stands, instructions in mass media, etc.) As a result of the project the number of uncontrolled huge forest and land fires will be decreased as well as damage to the inhabitants and nature. The measures to prevent or to localize the seasonal fires in municipalities will be improved and the particular municipal administrative instruments will be updated. The concrete “road maps” for different emergency situations will be elaborated, the public institutions as volunteer rescue teams and public fire inspectors will be integrated in to the improved governance practices in this sector in both countries. Scope of investment activities will be tested and performed during the project in both countries to improve the statistics of forest and land fires in the programme area. About 300 thousand of inhabitants will directly benefiting the project results in forest fire protection measures and additional 200-250 thousand of people from neighbouring municipalities and “summer inhabitants” from other parts of Estonia, Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region will also spent their vocational time in more fire safe territory. Project will benefit the whole programme area as any municipality will be able to use the templates and integrate it.

Website: http://www.estoniarussia.eu/

Expected Results (EN): A decrease of overall number of land- and forest fires per year

Expected Outputs (EN):

As a result of the project the number of the uncontrolled huge forest and land fires will be decreased as well as the damage to the inhabitants and nature. The measures to prevent or to localize the seasonal fires in the municipalities will be improved and the particular municipal administrative instruments will be updated. The concrete “road maps” for different emergency situations will be elaborated, the public institutions as volunteer rescue teams and public fire inspectors will be integrated in to the improved governance practices in this sector in both countries. Also the scope of investment activities will be tested and performed during the project in both countries to improve the statistics of forest and land fires in the programme area. About 300 thousand of inhabitants will be directly benefiting the project results in forest fire protection measures and additional 200-250 thousand of people from neighboring municipalities and “summer inhabitants” from other parts of Estonia, Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region will also spent their vocational time in more fire safe territory.

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Cooperation between emergency services

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Администрация Псковского района

Department: NA

Address: Olega Koshevogo 4, 180006 Pskov, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://pskovrajon.reg60.ru

Total budget: EUR 54 849.13

ENI budget: EUR 74 810.43

Администрация Палкинского района

Name: Администрация Палкинского района

Department: NA

Address: Ostrovskaya 23, 181270 Palkino, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://palkino.reg60.ru/

Total budget: EUR 25 254.35

ENI budget: EUR 40 442.96

Alutaguse Vallavalitsus

Name: Alutaguse Vallavalitsus

Department: NA

Address: Tartu 56, 41101 Iisaku alevik, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.alutagusevald.ee

Total budget: EUR 167 606.06

ENI budget: EUR 171 654.47

Администрация Печорского района

Name: Администрация Печорского района

Department: NA

Address: Kashtanovaya 1, 181500 Pechory, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://pechory.reg60.ru

Total budget: EUR 20 433.35

ENI budget: EUR 48 333.96

Администрация Гдовского района

Name: Администрация Гдовского района

Department: NA

Address: Karla Marksa 39, 181600 Gdov, Russia

Legal status: public

Website: http://gdov.reg60.ru

Total budget: EUR 20 006.18

ENI budget: EUR 40 162.28

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Administration of the Palkinsky district

Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

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Alutaguse Municipality Government

Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

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Administration of Pechorskiy Area

Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

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Administration of the Gdovskiy area

Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

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Administration of the Pskovsky area

Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

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Summary

Project name (EN): Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

Project acronym: LOCAL FIRE

Project start date: 2019-09-01

Project end date: 2022-06-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 288 149.07

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 235 162.51

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 375 404.10.

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2014 - 2020 Estonia - Russia ENI CBC

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Joint actions for improving local rescue fire services to protect forests and settlements in EE-RU border area

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