Dubai Civil Defence organized in association with Department of Islamic affairs and Charitable Work, awareness lecture and practical training for Dubai Government Pilgrims official mission, as part of DCD's strategic annual plan, to train   Pilgrims on how to handle emergency cases, and helping them to perform their pilgrim rites easily, and communicating with KSA concerned authorities, spreading preventive culture across society members as well to ensure best practices are implemented in fire Safety field.

Civil Protection Department focused on clarifying requirements and advises to  be followed by Pilgrims to avoid different types of incidents, to preserve public Safety, preforming religious rituals without any hindrances, implementing safe evacuation at times of emergency, and practical training on how to use manual fire extinguishers.

For his part, Captain Zayed  Abdouly, deputy director of Dubai Parks fire station while delivering the lectures to identify the public risks and causes of fires, necessity if avoiding flames inside tents except in the specified areas, adhere to tents entry and exit procedures, he raised examples of incidents that have happened last year to review learned lessons and to avoid recurrence for ensuring the safety of Pilgrims.

Captain Hamdan Suwaidi, deputy director of Civil Protection department emphasized that Dubai Civil Defence regularly conducts such awareness campaigns in cooperation with strategic partners, through which our capabilities employed to serve holy places pilgrims who are trained on theories of ignition and suspension, urging them to comply with Saudi Civil Defence requirements applied in UAE Pilgrims camps

As a part of its events to mark Yoga International Day, Department of Dubai Civil Defense has organized sport program for women elements working for the department, event was held at Max and eagle Center. International Yoga Day Celebration aims to cast light on the benefits of practicing yoga, a game that mixes between both traditional yoga techniques and sports exercises, based on physical and mechanical training movements principles, integrated with certain positions include parniama, pandihaz, crias and meditation.

Training atmosphere was featured with enthusiasm and willingness to execute instructions given by the trainer Jamila Ansari, head of Women team at Ministry of Infrastructure.

Civil Protection Department Deputy Director Captain Hamdan Alsewaidi and Captain Fahad Bukhashem have received  Heart Resuscitation Apparatus donated by Dubai Corporation for Ambulance services and delivered by Mr. Meshaal Abdul Karim Jalfar, Head of Medical Dispatch at DCFAS, as a part of the " Madinati Tusafani " initiative events, which seeks to improve Dubai Government entities employees, in the field of First aid, in order to achieve the strategic goal of implementing the best international practices in pre hospital primary care emergencies , which contributes to Emirates vision 2021 and Dubai strategic plan 2021.

Before the apparatus was delivered, a coordinating meeting was held encompass concerned DCD'S departments and DCFAS'S First Aid department, where issues discussed include joint cooperation and ways of communication to install donated device as per schedule agreed.

Lt.Col.Expert  Abdulrahman Balshalat, Director of Smart Systems at Dubai Civil Defense has visited Abdullah Saeed family, who used "Hasnutuk program" to send the first incident call, a program which was launched by HH Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed AlNahyan, deputy prime minister and minister of Interior, for homes Safety including innovate and sophisticated inhouse alarms systems. Hasuntuk scheme seeks to foster fire alarms and emergency systems in UAE through implementing AI based smart systems, and is one of  the initiatives launched by UAE Government as a part of plans set to enhance fire and safety in Civil Defense sector .

Balshalat visit comes as a part of  the initiative themed " You Deserve Safety " launched by Dubai Civil Defense in line with its efforts to enhance community partnership between Dubai Civil Defense and different sectors of the society, and bringing families in emirate of Dubai more closer, diversifying Safety means and protecting families against fire risks, encouraging the society members to respond quickly to the various initiatives launched by Civil Defense and the government.

Brig.Rashid Khalifa Albufalsa,acting director of Dubai Civil Defense has confirmed that Deserve Safety initiative instill wise leadership vision through Hasnutuk program, and at the same time encouraging citizens and residents to connect their homes to the program to reap the fruitful results the program has achieved. Visiting Abdullah's family symbolizes such positive results, that allows the family avoiding fire incident.

For his part,Lt.Col.Expert Balshalat indicated that "Hasuntuk scheme " has contributed widely in enhancing lives and properties protection, we here today with a family who have benefited indeed from the launched program, as smoke started to rise in the house, Civil Defense operations room received a report from Hasuntuk operations, then the owner of the house was notified, fire squads immediately rushed from Rashydia fire station to fire scene in Warrqa 2 area, to discover smoke was orginated from car battery charger, where it was controlled by the owner of the house, in the presence of fire team.He added, Hasuntuk program helped to get community members prepared as first responder to handle fire incidents to curb negative aftermath.

Deputy director of Government Communications department, Lady Huwaida Saeed Bin Touq, indicated that the initiative lies under the directives of H.E Maj.gen.expert Rashid Thani Almatrooshi,director general of Dubai Civil Defense, aiming to communicate with the families in emirate of Dubai, in order to spreading awareness and preventive culture to ensure protection of lives and properties. Government Communications department is dedicated to implementing initiatives and directives in reality by reaching various components across the society