National Headquarters of the State Fire Service of Poland

The State Fire Service of Poland participates in the international operations on the basis of bilateral agreements with certain European countries, as well as in missions coordinated by:

• The United Nations – the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• The European Union – the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC)
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC)

Our experiences

• Earthquakes: Armenia (1988), Turkey (1999), Algeria (2003), Iran (2003), Pakistan (2005), Indonesia (2006), Haiti (2010), Japan – deployment of Polish expert (EUCPT) (2011), Nepal (2015), Turkey (2023)
• Floods: Hungary (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Germany (2002), Ukraine (2008), Montenegro (2010), Pakistan – deployment of the Polish expert (EUCPT) (2011)
• Forest fires: Russia (2010), Sweden (2018), Greece (2021), Turkey (2021), Czech Republic (2022), France (2022), Greece (2023)
• Explosions: the Republic of Congo – deployment of the PL expert (UNDAC Team) (2012), Lebanon (2020)
• Hurricane: Philippines – expert (2013)
• Blackout: Slovenia (2014)
   

Humanitarian assistance

• Albania (1999), Romania (2000), India (2001), Ukraine (2001), Iran (2001), Sri Lanka and Indonesia (2004/2005), Romania (2005), Palistan (2005), Bulgaria (2006), Macedonia (2007), Georgia (2008), Romania (2008), Albania (2010), Bulgaria (2012), Ukraine (2014, 2015), Germany (2015), Tunisia (2015), Albania (2019), Belarus (2x2020), Ukraine (2020), Moldova (2020), Albania (2020), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2020), Montenegro (2020), Kosovo (2020), North Macedonia (2020), Serbia (2020), Slovakia (2021), Germany (2x2021), Ukraine (2022), Turkey (2023).