2012 January 19

INSA leads the European fires platform of SAFER (www.emergencyresponse.eu), coordinating the activities of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Greece.
SAFER project proposed several fire services in order to support all phases of crisis management: Preparedness/Prevention, Emergency Response and Recovery.
The project’s fire products have a strong scientific base and the methodologies developed are automatic or semi-automatic.
SAFER fire services were selected among the most mature products provided in previous GMES projects. During 18 months, the products were tested and improved, taking into account both the validation results and users’ feedback. After all this validation process, the SAFER fire services have been considered fully operational and have been included to the core SAFER services.
The distribution of these products to a wide number of users will contribute to better understand and forecast fire behavior, to manage the crisis in a more cost-effective way, to reduce the impacts and to plan and monitoring the mitigation and recovery activities.