Firefighters from 8 countries met in Guayaquil

Organization of American Firefighters on board 1st session of 2013

Today was end the workshops held  in Guayaquil carried out by the American Fire Organization (ABO for its Spanish acronym), with the aim of sharing knowledge among representatives from eight countries.

The major Fernando Ayala, head of the third Fire Brigade, said  that within the meeting  was carried out a training instructors seminar.

The meeting seeked the unity of the training parameters, the instructor profile and the methodologies of the seminars so that the firemen in the region have similar knowledges in specific areas in which they train, be it structural, woodland, rescue, paramedics, floods among others.

In the meeting were present firefighters from Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Mexico and Ecuador.