Research of the Structural and Technical Development of Hungarian Fire Protection, with a Special View on Increasing the Role of Voluntary Fire Brigades

Abstract

The regulation on disaster management strongly emphasizes the ever broader involvement of the voluntary and charity organizations. Voluntary organizations, which have the longest history, traditions, but also proficiency and preparedness, are the voluntary fire-fighter associations. An important question nowadays is how to involve the voluntary fire-fighter associations in different phases of protection; whether the territorial coverage could efficiently be improved through centralized financing of these units; and if the once flourishing voluntary firefighter’s movement could be revitalized. The author seeks to provide answers to the above questions, invoking historic facts, presenting international analysis and also Hungarian results.