On September 28th, the Duisburg Firebrigade invited partners from the FlashFloodBreaker Project to take part in the joint flood response activities on the shores of the river Rhine. Together with members of the German armed forces and the Technisches Hilfswerk, Firebrigades from Germany, The Netherlands and France as well as representatives from local and international waterboards shared training schemes, tools and experiences when showcased in the field.
"Finalement on n'avait pas tous les mêmes uniformes mais on est tous là ce matin pour partager et progresser encore dans la prise en charge de ce risque."
Transnational Knowledge
Levee inspection
Tools
International partners shared knowledge about how to integrate AI tools into traditional knowledge
Experience
Visual key points and experience merge into knowledge
Dialogue
Partners from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Ireland learned from each other
Transnational Knowledge
working with sandbags
Hands on!
sealing of levee breaches
Different sealing techniques
In order to cope with small levee breaches partners trained the effectivenes of sandbag placement systems
Communication as key asset
Language barriers between the different partners were harmonized by clear task communication and a shared "hands-on-mentality"
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Transnational Knowledge
sandbag replacing systems
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Transnational Knowledge
practice pumping
Water is pumped from the Rhine River to fill mobile Levee constructions by members of EGLV- Lead partner of FlashFloodBreaker
Comparision of pumping equipment by members of the Moselle firebrigade
Pumping systems from waterboards and firefighters can equally be useful in cases of flashflooding
