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| The mission of the Hellenic Fire Service as it derives
from its foundation law
and the internal service regulation is to save/ guard and protect the life and property of the citizen and the state from the risks of fires and calamities. Specifically the functions of the Fire Service are: a) To extinguih fires during peace and war times, to take and impose preventive measures in order to avoid the risks from their expansion and to help those at risk. b) To deal with technological accidents and industrial disasters, and to rescue people and goods which are in peril. c) To take and impose preventive measures in order to deal with the risks and losses due to calamities, floods, break - downs and other disasters and to assist in the rescue of the property at risk. d) To safe - guard and maintain in safety the property which has been set on fire or threatened from fire or any other hazard until it is delivered to the police or its owners. e) To offer first aid to those injured due to the above misfortune and to transport them immediately to the hospital. f) To assist people who have been trapped in an elevator or in a car after an accident. g) To perform any other function which derives from other regulations and relates to the firemanÆs profession as well as that concearning the shearing of responsibility of the fire service to the Emergency Planning Procedures. h) To assist the police forces and the army, if demanded, in order to deal with emergency incidents. This service is provided by decision of the Fire Brigade Chief and after a proper recommendation of the chiefs of each fire station. i) To assist the Forest Fire Service in case of a forest fire, according to the existing legislation, if the chief of the fire station estimates that the mobilasation of the fire engines is possible. j) To recomend, impose and follow - up preventive and supressive measures and fire protection facilities by the existing legislation. k) To sue for offenses foreseen by the article 433 of the penal code and to make inquiries about the crime of arson according to the articles 264, 266 and 267 of the penal code. l) To train and advice the employees from industry and other enterprises, medical centres, schools e.t.c. as well as the public at large about the immediate fire extinguishing procedures and the ways of preventing them, if demanded. m) To elaborate, edit and apply plans for preventing and tackling big fires or other disasters in cooperation with other public or municipal authorities, if needed. The fire service deals with an average of 55000 incidents a year aproximately
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