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National Fire Fighting

XII. The NFA Training Center

The NFA training center has not only developed a close partnership with other countries, but also
gradually established a disaster prevention-training model and mechanism in Taiwan.

1. Constructing a Complete Disaster Prevention Training System to Enhance
the Efficacy of Disaster Prevention and Rescue Education and Trainings

(1) Offering in-service trainings for rescue and emergency respondent personnel.

(2) Stimulating international disaster prevention and rescue technical trainings and communications.
(3) Providing professional educational trainings for firefighters.

(4) Offering a training center for three-dimensional rescue training.
2. Offering Firefighters On-the-Job Professional Trainings and Workshops

to Enhance their Professionalism

In 2017, the center totally offered 161 fire fighting professional training courses and 14,940 people
participated in the courses (trained 156,533 person-times per day).

3. Cooperating with Central Administrative Agencies and Enterprises to
Enhance the Disaster Prevention Training

The NFA cooperated with the Ministry of National Defense, the MOTC Taiwan Area National
Freeway Bureau and the Civil Aeronautics Administration to hold different kinds of disaster prevention
trainings; and it also held fire and chemical disaster rescue trainings for civil enterprises and groups.

4. Collaborating with the New Southbound Policy to Develop Diplomatic
Relations through Fire Fighting Related Activities

(1) The NFA was entrusted by Overseas Chinese Affair Council (OCAC) to hold fire fighting rescue
trainings for overseas Chinese-Philippines volunteer firefighters; and it has proactively collaborated
with the government’s New Southbound policy to develop diplomatic relations through fire fighting

related activities.
(2) Accompany with Taichung City Fire Department to conduct Taiwan-Vietnam Firefighter training.

(3) Accompany with National Cheng Kung University to conduct international disaster risk analyze
short-term class.

(4) Accompany with Toxic and Chemical Substances Bureau, National Yunlin University of Science
and Technology to conduct South-East HAZMAT,FRO class.

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