The annual republican campaign "Holidays without Smoke and Fire" is launching in the Lepel district. It will be held in school-based and summer health camps, as well as in preschool educational institutions.
Summer holidays are a happy and most anticipated time for all schoolchildren. However, it is during this period that the number of fires and other emergencies involving minors increases. Children are often left unsupervised by adults, which is why school and summer camps are starting in the Lepel region to organise leisure activities for children. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will be frequent guests at these camps.
The main goal of the rescuers is to prevent emergencies caused by children's pranks with fire, as well as the death of children at water bodies. Thematic visual materials will appear on information stands within the camps and in preschool educational institutions. Preventive talks will be conducted by employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Belarusian Voluntary Society for the Rescue of Persons on Water (OSVOD) with children. Thematic and educational films, cartoons will be demonstrated, quizzes on life safety will be held, competition programmes will be organised, and the magazine "Young Rescuer" will be presented. Educational visual materials will be distributed among minors. Employees and duty personnel will undergo training on fire safety rules.
Activists from district (city) branches of the Belarusian Youth Public Association of Rescuers-Publicists (BYPA), other interested organisations, such as the Republican Voluntary Public Association "Belarusian Voluntary Fire Society" (RGOO "BDPO"), departments or institutions of culture, etc., will join the campaign.