Fire Evacuation Exercise

Venue

📍 Date: 25.09.2023
📍 Location: Stadtarchiv Lindau

Participating Organisations

◾  Lindau Fire Brigade
◾  international participants of the Summer School 2023


Scenario

A fire broke out in the Stadtarchiv Lindau, which houses valuable printed material from the Middle Ages to the latest edition of the daily newspaper. After the fire had been extinguished and people had been evacuated by the Lindau fire brigade, the archive material had to be cleared and inventoried.

 

 

Table-Top Exercise: Flood Evacuation

Venue

📍 Date: 31.08.2018
📍 Location: Melk Abbey

Participating Organisations

◾  Military Command Lower Austria
◾  Pioneer Battalion 3 (Melk Pioneers)
◾  Austrian Police Force
◾  25 international participants of the Summer School 2018


Scenario

The Wachau is threatened by an even higher flood than in 2013 - the flood defences are not up to the task. The population and the historically and culturally significant artefacts of the Melk Abbey Museum must be evacuated immediately.

Objective: Practical testing of the recently developed emergency plan for Melk Abbey during a joint evacuation and inventory in cooperation with liaison officers from the Austrian Armed Forces and the police.

Assessment and Strategy

Transport to Birago Barracks

Briefing Evacuation Scenario

Depot Setup and Inventory

Packing and Salvage

 

 

Earthquake Disaster Control Exercise

Venue

📍 Date: 26.05. - 28.05. 2018
📍 Location: ABC- und Katastrophenhilfeübungsplatz Tritolwerk (Eggendorf, Niederösterreich)

Participating Organisations

◾  2nd NBC Defence Company of the Austrian Armed Forces (Mautern) (Mautern)
◾  14 participants from 9 countries


Scenario

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale shook the eastern part of Austria on the morning of 26 May 2018, causing widespread destruction in southern Lower Austria: numerous important cultural treasures were buried.
Objective: Recovery of cultural artefacts from Tritol Castle and training of the Austrian Armed Forces and the Cultural Property Rescue Team.

Training Area Tritolia

Recovery of Cultural Property

Briefing Earthquake Scenario

Packaging and Transport of Cultural Property

Searching for Cultural Property

Simulation Fire in Archive and Evacuation

 

 

Evacuation Exercise

Venue

📍 Date: 26.08. 2016
📍 Location: Stadtmuseum Traismauer

Participating Organisations

◾  Military Command Lower Austria
◾  Austrian Armed Forces
◾  24 international participants of the Summer School 2016


Scenario

Fire in a pizzeria near the Wiener Tor, where objects from the archaeological collection of the Stadtmuseum Traismauer are housed.

Objective: After the fire has been extinguished by the Traismauer Fire Brigade, some of the artefacts have to be evacuated from the Wiener Tor, which is in danger of collapsing.

Fire Brigade Exercise

Evacuation Exercise

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