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Solferino memorial competiton

On 24 June, 1859 French-Sardinian troops clashed with the troops of Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy on the plain next to Solferino, in Northern Italy. A Swiss merchant, Henry Durant started to make arrangements to look after the wounded in the nearby Castiglione after he heard that the number of wounded in the battle was over 20 thousand. After returning home to Switzerland Durant wrote a book in remembrance of Solferino, in which he urged that the soldiers wounded in a battlefield and the nurses looking after them be considered neutral. In 1864 Durant with his three compatriots founded the Red Cross International committee, which was the base and the beginning of today's worldwide movement of Red Cross.
It is the six time that a memorial competition has been held in the memory of the wounded and it makes us remember not only the wounded at Solferino but all those who have been wounded in wars since then.
This year the competition was held in Castiglione, where there were 21 teams to compete.
The competitors had to give evidence of their knowledge at 10 stations. The tasks were selected by the organisers to test human skills, professional theoretical and practical knowledge thoroughly..
Let's see some of the tasks:
- Rescue from water,
- Getting through ambulance test track,
- Searching with dogs
- Rescue of patient with spinal injuries in extreme conditions
- Rescue from cave
- Reanimation,
- Task demonstrating skills
Hungary was represented by the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service team in the competition, and they came eighth. The fact that the Italian first aid equipment is different from the Hungarian standard equipment made the tasks difficult to perform, nevertheless the members of the team gave the impression of a well-prepared team, which is confirmed by the fact that they happened to be better than the first Spanish team at 5 tasks.

The member of the team are:
- István Suplitz
- József Farkas
- Zsolt Lesák
- Péter Lovászi
- János Hahn
The competition finished with a 9-km torch-light procession on the evening of 25 June, where many thousand people demonstrated their respect for this noble initiation.
Let me finish this short memoir with one of the organisation's principle:
"You have just one life, stand on your guard!!"

PA Rt. - intranet / June 2003

Fire Protection The Most Successful Team

This year the national first aid competition was organised on 07 June in Fonyód. The competitors of Paks Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service achieved the highest scores in the adult category with a lead of 16 points, becoming the most successful team of the competition. They couldn't come first, as their achievements were scored out of competition. The members of the Paks team achieving the highest score, 325 points, are the following: József Farkas, János Haán, Zsolt Lesták, Péter Lovászi, István Suplicz.
The competition was opened by Dr István Mártai, chairman of the jury and started at 9 o'clock. There were about 53 teams altogether competing in three categories; primary and secondary school students with 20-20 teams, and adults with 13 teams. The national contention went on until 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the teams had to compete according to strict rules and give evidence of their knowledge and skills at 20 stations. Among the 5 professional, 9 theoretical, 3 traffic rule related and 1 skill related stations there were 2 relaxation stations. The performance of the different tasks required high quality accomplishment. The professional part included different accident situations, where injury imitations, injury symptom demonstrations and the patients' role-plays were lifelike. Competitors had to be careful, paying special attention to everything as it had a great importance to clear all the circumstances. The jury was very strict while giving scores and assessing the way the ambulance was informed the time and accuracy of providing the signs and information. The results achieved at the professional stations were given emphases during the assessment.
The Paks team was very good at the traffic rule related stations, they won extra award in the pedestrian-related and cyclist-related tasks. They turned out to be the best at teamwork and coordination as well.
This year the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service had very little time to prepare. They were preparing mainly on their own that's why their result are so praiseworthy. They received assistance in practice from András Agócs and József Feil, Ambulance Service employees and István Schreiner, head of fire and technical rescue helped them with theory preparation.
Tolna county teams gave evidence of their good performance as Primary School No 5 from Szekszárd came second, I Béla Secondary Grammar and Informatics School came fourth. The Paks Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service team became the most successful and best team in the adult category with325 points.
The excellent team has an opportunity to compete on an international level as they were invited to take part in the international Red Cross first aid competition in Solferino, Italy, where their colleagues previously achieved great success.

Anna Lovászi
TŰZvédelem - June 2003

Fire Service Festival on St. Florian's Day

At the beginning of May, on St Florian's Day festivities were held in honour of fire fighters in Fadd. The 110th anniversary of the establishment of the Voluntary Fire Society of Fadd was remembered at the Tolna county event, a book which was published for the anniversary about the history of the Fire Society was introduced, representatives and musical groups from twinned partner foreign Fire Services were invited and entertained. The audience could see a spectacular demonstration of the fire service tasks. The ceremonies included the flag consecration granted by the local government of Fadd to the Voluntary Fire Society. Dr Judit Csehák was the Honouring flag Mother. Several honours were awarded at the event. Among the many awarded Tolna county fire-fighters there were the members of the ATOMIX Ltd. Fire Department of the Nuclear Power Plant Fire Service from Paks. József Tóbi, training executive and György Mihálovics, duty chief received honorary rings, József Szendi, deputy chief of the fire service and István Schreiner, head of the fire extinguishing and technical rescue operations were given medallions and János Lacza, driver was awarded the 10-year-in-service medal.
Congratulations!

Atomerőmű Magazine - May 2003

One second lost them the gold medal

The Paks Nuclear Power Plant fire service team of ten people came second in the national facility fire services' competition. It was the third silver medal won by the Atomix Ltd. fire service besides the three gold medals in the history of the competition.

Paks-Hajdúszoboszló
The 7th Flórián Pess Cup was organised in Hajdúszoboszló last weekend. This time thirty-two teams, among them the Atomix Ltd. that is the Paks Nuclear Power Plant fire service team, took part in the national facility fire services' competition. So far the team from Paks has always been among the leaders, three times even they have won the competition. István Schreiner, head of the fire extinguishing and technical rescue operations said they had been working really hard to prepare for the competition, even they held an intramural competition with the three shift groups. Only the best could get among the ten members of the competing team. There were three tasks to do; two assemblies, and a relay at the weekend in Hajdúszoboszló. The Atomix Ltd. fire service team performed all the three tasks extremely well nevertheless it wasn't enough to win the cup. They just lost by 0.3 sec in the dividing branch assembly and by 0.4 sec in the low-powered engine assembly. They arrived at the finish just one second later than the winner Fire Service and Technical rescue Ltd, this way they came second according to the total score losing by 1.3 second altogether. The members of the team were: András Apró, János Hahn, István Kovács, János Lacza, Tibor Mikolics, Rajmung Pesztericz, Tamás Szabó, Zoltán Szabó, Ferenc Széles and Ferenc Viniczai.

Tolnai Népújság - 06 September, 2003

Twenty-five years, further and further challenges
He has been always attracted by new tasks

In recognition of his course of life the Home Secretary promoted Lajos Zelei to fireman major out of turn. The Major, who has had this profession for a quarter of century, - although he is a pensioner - is still working for the institutional fire department of the nuclear power plant.

He worked at a pharmaceutical factory, airport, and for twenty-five years Lajos Zelei has served as a fireman, who was taken to this career as well, because he has liked the challenges, has been attracted by extraordinary things. By the way, at his decision it was also considered that he liked the working hours, two off-days after the twenty-four hours' duty, which was preferable, as he was just building a house. He had a very interesting job as the signalman of the Fire Service of the Capital, could help a lot of people.

- 'While working, man incapacitates his emotions, does his duty to the best of his knowledge. Then comes the dazed condition, when he has time to think over what has happened' he says about his work. At the intelligence centre several colleagues of his entered for a college, unsuccessfully. At that time he made up his mind to try it himself as well. He was admitted to enrol with the second best score, overcame all the obstacles with success. The invitation arrived on the diploma transmission: to work for the fire department of the nuclear power plant. They settled down in Dunaszentgyörgy, where, of course, he joined the voluntary fire service. Besides he does gardening with pleasure, is the most proud of his fruit trees, and if he would like to relax, he angles. After a reorganization he decided to retire, shortly afterwards his commander told him he expected his return. He said yes with pleasure, since he likes not only his job, but the collective as well. He is the chairman by seniority at the institutional fire department operated by Atomix Ltd. Their team is well-prepared, and they have to stand on alert permanently, keep their level and train themselves continuously. During the trainings Lajos Zelei is reckoned on time after time, since he is very experienced, has always liked to deal with people and forward the knowledge that has been already possessed by him to the younger.

Lajos Zelei
He was born in Tiszadob on 17th May 1948, acquired the degree of fire fighting works engineer in 1983 at the Ybl Miklós Architectural and Technical College. His wife, Erzsébet Gyurkó, is a chemist technician, a laboratory assistant at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. They have two daughters: Réka is 26 years old, works for Baranya County ÁNTSZ. Márta is 21 years old, an undergraduate at the Technical University.

Tolnai Népújság - 16. september 2003