NEW SET FOR DETECTION TRAINING WITH CHEMICALRECONNAISSANCE DEVICES OF FIRE AND RESCUESERVICE

Abstract

Fire brigade units are currently centrally equipped with chemical
reconnaissance devices, some of them belong to the world class detectors: detector
Detehit, detection papers PP-3, chemical detector set CHP-71 with detection
tubes, mobile detector for dangerous gases and chemical warfare agents GDA-2
and mobile Raman-spectrometer FirstDefender. These devices are made for
chemical reconnaissance, particularly detection, identification and determination
of dangerous gases, vapors and chemical warfare agents in the air and also for
unknown liquid and solid substances identification.
Although these devices are quite simple to operate and to interpret
measured data, their reliable use in a real situation necessarily requires regular
operational training with specific agents. Therefore, a training set called IMKOP
was developed at the Population Protection Institute. This set is designed for
practical training with all named devices using all available techniques.