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Due to earthquakes, people often lose their homes and require temporary accommodation. Building mass emergency shelter sites, advanced medical posts or field hospitals for people displaced by disaster takes time and skills, and requires training.

During the SIQUAKE 2020 exercise, the Slovenian and the Austrian Red Cross, together with structural engineers from the Italian Civil Protection, set up a temporary mass shelter site composed of multi-functional accommodation tents, hygiene and sanitation services, a water purification unit, advanced medical posts and a field hospital.

The exercise aimed to test the reception and accommodation of internally displaced people, and gave both teams a chance to exchange professional experience and knowledge.

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Due to earthquakes, people often lose their homes and require temporary accommodation. Building mass emergency shelter sites, advanced medical posts or field hospitals for people displaced by disaster takes time and skills, and requires training.

During the SIQUAKE 2020 exercise, the Slovenian and the Austrian Red Cross, together with structural engineers from the Italian Civil Protection, set up a temporary mass shelter site composed of multi-functional accommodation tents, hygiene and sanitation services, a water purification unit, advanced medical posts and a field hospital.

The exercise aimed to test the reception and accommodation of internally displaced people, and gave both teams a chance to exchange professional experience and knowledge.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic),

According to the training script, the earthquake affected a wood manufacture, which produces windows, doors, chairs and tables. The night shift was just finishing their work, while administration personnel was arriving to work when the earthquake struck.

Firefighting teams equipped with oxygen tanks and protective face masks enter the destroyed building to look for survivors.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

According to the exercise script, the earthquake affected a wood manufacture, which produces windows, doors, chairs and tables. The production employees were just finishing their night shift, while administration personnel were arriving to work when the earthquake struck.

The participants, including civil protection teams from Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary, train their search and rescue skills to safely evacuate people trapped in the building on the roofs and in confined spaces, on a height (offices) and depths (shafts, holes).

They also practice rope rescue and wall breakthrough techniques.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

According to the training script, the earthquake affected a wood manufacture, which produces windows, doors, chairs and tables.

The night shift was just finishing their work, while administration personnel was arriving to work when the earthquake struck.

Firefighting teams equipped with oxygen tanks and protective face masks entered the destroyed building to look for survivors.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Urban search and rescue teams from Slovenia practiced their skills at an old gravel pit: rescuing victims from heights and depths, using rope techniques, excavating and removing debris.

The location prepared experts to work under challenging conditions in a confined space, surrounded by dust and chemical hazards.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis Management, visits various SIQUAKE 2020 exercise locations in and around Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 7 October 2021.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

According to the exercise script, the earthquake affected a wood manufacture, which produces windows, doors, chairs and tables. The production employees were just finishing their night shift, while administration personnel were arriving to work when the earthquake struck.

The participants, including civil protection teams from Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary, train their search and rescue skills to safely evacuate people trapped in the building on the roofs and in confined spaces, on a height (offices) and depths (shafts, holes).

They also practice rope rescue and wall breakthrough techniques.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Hungarian and Croatian search and rescue teams have safely evacuated a victim, played by a volunteer, and are taking him to the nearest medical point.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Urban search and rescue teams from Croatia practice their skills at an old gravel pit: Rescuing victims from heights and depths, using rope techniques, excavating and removing debris.

The location prepares experts to work under challenging conditions in a confined space, surrounded by dust and chemical hazards.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

A member of the EU Civil Protection team visits the exercise. The civil protection team from Croatia prepares to rescue a person from the roof using ropes and ladders at one of the exercise locations - an abandoned manufacture in the area of Logatec, near Ljubljana.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Urban search and rescue teams from Croatia practiced their skills at an old gravel pit.

The participants managed to locate and evacuate a victim, and took her to a nearby medical point for further assistance.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis Management, visits various SIQUAKE 2020 exercise locations in and around Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 7 October 2021. Here: A water purification unit set up by the Austrian Red Cross at the temporary mass shelter site.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

According to the exercise script, the earthquake affected a wood manufacture, which produces windows, doors, chairs and tables. The night shift was just finishing their work, while administration personnel was arriving to work when the earthquake struck.

Croatian search and rescue teams have safely evacuated a victim, played by a volunteer, and are taking him to the nearest medical point.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Due to earthquakes, people often lose their homes and require temporary accommodation. Building mass emergency shelter sites, advanced medical posts or field hospitals for people displaced by disaster takes time and skills, and requires training.

During the SIQUAKE 2020 exercise, the Slovenian and the Austrian Red Cross, together with structural engineers from the Italian Civil Protection, set up a temporary mass shelter site composed of multi-functional accommodation tents, hygiene and sanitation services, a water purification unit, advanced medical posts and a field hospital.

The exercise aimed to test the reception and accommodation of internally displaced people, and gave both teams a chance to exchange professional experience and knowledge.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic),

Croatian urban search and rescue teams practice their skills at an old gravel pit: Rescuing victims from heights and depths, using rope techniques, excavating and removing debris.

The location prepares experts to work under challenging conditions in a confined space, surrounded by dust and chemical hazards.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

According to the exercise script, the earthquake affected a wood manufacture, which produces windows, doors, chairs and tables. The production employees were just finishing their night shift, while administration personnel were arriving to work when the earthquake struck.

The participants, including civil protection teams from Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary, train their search and rescue skills to safely evacuate people trapped in the building on the roofs and in confined spaces, on a height (offices) and depths (shafts, holes).

They also practice rope rescue and wall breakthrough techniques.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Urban search and rescue teams from Slovenia practice their skills at an old gravel pit: Rescuing from heights and depths, using rope techniques, excavating and removing debris.

The location prepares experts to work under challenging conditions in a confined space, surrounded by dust and chemical hazards.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

At a training ground in the area of Logatec: Croatian civil protection teams practice excavation, concrete loads removal, wall breakthrough and rescue from heights - skills that can help safely evacuate people trapped under debris of demolished buildings or other city infrastructure following an earthquake.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic)

Due to earthquakes, people often lose their homes and require temporary accommodation.

Building emergency shelter sites, advanced medical posts or field hospitals for people displaced by disaster takes time and skills, and requires training.

During the SIQUAKE 2020 exercise, the Slovenian and the Austrian Red Cross, together with structural engineers from the Italian Civil Protection, set up a temporary mass shelter site.

It was composed of multi-functional accommodation tents, hygiene and sanitation services, a water purification unit, advanced medical posts and a field hospital.

The exercise aimed to test the reception and accommodation of internally displaced people, and gave both teams a chance to exchange professional experience and knowledge.

© European Union, 2021 (photographer: Žiga Živulovic),