Excellency Brig. Expert Ali Hassan Al Mutawaa, assist. Director-General for Fire and rescue Affairs, at Dubai Civil Defense, has crowned the winners who were placed on the pinnacle of the championship branded “Fire Stations Champion Challenge Tournament 2020”, organized by “Fitness Section” at Fire Stations Department, and was held in “Dubai Frame”, for fire personnel from 22 fire stations across the emirate of Dubai.

                   Winners honored include 1st Corporal Omer Mohammed Al Hammadi, from Dubai Industrial Fire Station, who was placed first, Sergeant Abdullah Al Shamsi, from Support and Backup Center who has secured the second place, and 1St Corporal Ibrahim Mohammed Al Hammadi, from Marine Fire and Rescue Station, who comes in the third place. The tournament organized by Fitness Section involved 212 officers and Warrant Officers as participants.                              

 Al Mutawaa praised the high levels demonstrated by fire and rescue men during the championship, which reflect the positive impact of the training they received and courses attended, to enhance the capabilities, skills, and physical fitness, which represent the main pillars to perform their duties of lives and properties protection.

 At the same time, he also praised the department and its affiliated Fitness Section for their valued efforts exerted in organizing competitiveness championships, which practically achieved their set goals and confirmed training readiness and sustainability. Brig. Expert Ali honored as well as Dubai Frame management in recognition of the cooperation and enhancing fraternity ties spirit. 

  Among the attendees were Col. Abdulrahman Ba Alshalat, Director of Mizher Fore Station, Col. Expert Rashid Hussein Al Sumaitie Director of Quoz Fire Station, Major Ali Mohammed Al Falasi, Director of Fire Stations department, and Captain Khalid Mohammed Al loghani deputy director Dubai South Fire Station.

           Excellency Brig. Expert Ali Hassan Al Mutawaa, assist. Director-General for Fire and Rescue Affairs, at Dubai Civil Defence Headquarters, inspected as part of the efficiency program, Shifts Leaders training course electronic tests process, which was held at Emirates Civil Defence Academy.

               The held course focuses on incidents management theories and methodologies, as per highest professional levels, different tactics to control and command all types of fire incidents; it also reflects the continuation of basic and advanced specialized training and programs of fire, rescue sciences to developing, and enhance skills by using group activities, self-assessment exercises, and latest artificial intelligence, in order to implement best practices when participating in incident command and firefighting suppression in accordance to excellent performance indicators and standards.

                Worth to mention is that the “Efficiency Program”, first of its kind, aims to prepare shifts leaders for incidents commanding, as it includes performance indicators to assess the field and technical works at personal and group levels, ensuring work continuation in a perfect and professional way and covering all updates and developments, in the different fields of fire and rescue operations, and giving each firefighter a card that will be approved t in four stages, and linked to employee annual evaluation. 

                  He confirmed that improving and raising human cadre skills and efficiency comes on DCD’S top priorities, through holding scientific training courses, which help to increase the knowledge and keeping path with the huge quantum leaps seen in the field of different sciences, in order to achieve professional excellence that associates with academic quality, which ultimately would lead to accomplishing DCD’S vision and message of protecting lives and properties.

                  Al Mutawaa also indicated that the fire and rescue sector works seamlessly to achieve elements training sustainability, in line with the framework of the keenness to achieve set goals, as compared to their big role to play in fire suppression, and mitigation of its aftermath, by building the required capabilities necessary to face anticipated challenges.

                  The inspection was carried out in the presence of Major Ali Mohammed Al Falasi, Director of Fire Stations Department, 1st Lt. Matter Mohammed Bin Ghdaier, head of the training unit, and Lt. Khalid Rashid Al Shehee.

Under the auspicious of H.E. Maj. Gen. Expert Rashid Thani Al Matrooshi, Director General of Dubai Civil Defence, and in continuation of Dubai Civil Defence World First Aid Day’s celebration, in which all specialized organizations, health authorities, and community members across the countries are invited to acquire first aid and rescue skills.

Public health Section, at Civil Protection Department, has distributed First Aid Kits to the directors of departments and centers officers, other officers, and warrant officers at various ire and rescue centers, in recognition of their valued efforts demonstrated within specialty field, as they rush untiringly to incident scene to rescue victims and trapped persons in different incidents and at times of emergency, and positively dealing with various cases before transfer to concerned entities.

  Department’s director Captain Hamadan Hamed Al Suweidi praised the sponsorship of the Director-General Al Matrooshi extended to different events and activities, which reflect DCD’S institutional and societal role.

He stressed also, celebrating this Day reflects what extend we are concern with the importance of making personnel and community members learning the basics of First Aid science, and to ensure its proper implementation by them, as deemed necessary for rescuing and supporting the victims prior to the arrival of concerned squads, adding concerned entities in cooperation with a strategic partner of emergency services providers are dedicated to spreading First Aid culture and skills through their social activities.

Head of Strategic Partnership Section (SPS), at Dubai Civil Defence (DCD),1st Lt. Hamad Thani Ali, received at his office, Lady Eiman Mohammed, Director of Aoun Foundation, and Lady Aisha Al Suweidi, in the presence of Lady Sara Ahmed Al Ahmadi, head of Corporate Communication Section.

Both Parties discussed aspects of cooperation and ideas that contribute to fostering happiness values and interaction with all positive initiatives, stressing the support role shown to first-line heroes of DCD, in recognition of their valued sacrifice in responding to Coronavirus- COVID19- Pandemic.

Lady Eiman stress that, Aoun Foundation is giving special discount offers Card, services, and facilitation to DCD’D staff family members in recognition and appreciation of their parents’ efforts exerted during battling the COVID19 pandemic, including preventive measures are taken and disinfection operations carried out, in association with other teams across the nation, and which have helped to ensure achieving community safety.

For his part, Thani praised Aoun Foundation pioneering initiative; aims to honor DCD’S first line heroes and their families, stressing such type of positive initiatives to enhance community consolidation, and inspire community partnership to reach higher horizons.

He added Aoun Foundation highlighted a huge appreciation to the role played by the first Defence line, by raising its lovely initiative, also comes to admit their ongoing efforts to ensure the protection of UAE's different classes, besides it also instilling continuous support to backup first line heroes through meaningful initiatives. 

Commemoratives gifts and shields were exchanged between the two bodies at the end of the visit.