Transcript Contacts among avalanche reports users

Contacts among
avalanche reports users
Dipl. ing. Adrian David , Mtg. Narcisa Milian
ROMANIA
Services involved in avalanche
warning and accident prevention
• METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
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Meteorological and specific snow observations
Weather Forecasting
Avalanche risk estimation – daily bulletins
Warnings in case of a high estimated avalanche risk
• SALVAMONT (Mountain Rescue Team)
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Monitorizing of important touristic risk area
Tourists information about risk conditions
Interventions in case of accidents
Acces forbidding – if necessary –in the areas with
high risk (!)
Information dissemination
• Internet sites of the involved services:
– www.0salvamont.ro
– www.inmh.ro
• Internet sites of mountaneous touristic interess:
– www.alpinet.org
– www.carpati.org
– www.clubulalpinroman.org
• European Services Avalanche site:
– www.slf.ch/laworg/map.html
Information dissemination
• Ways :
– e-mail to the touristique organizations and
clubs
– mass-media
Information dissemination
Aims:
• Information about the estimated avalanche risk
• Tourists sensibilization:
- Salvamont meeting with the touristic clubs – SKV Sibiu
- Book launching: Mihai Tănase “Zăpada” (Snow), december 2006
- February 2007: initiation in individual avalanche protection
equipments using
- March and april 2007 : avalanche rescue procedures - specialised
course for mountain rescue teams
- May 2007: initiation in PIEPS equipments, products presentation,
short presentation about avalanches
- Conferrence about traumas – Sinaia: short presentation about
avalanches
Information dissemination
In the mountaneous areas:
• Warnings posters
Mass-media:
• Audio, visual and written media (intense mediatisation in
the last year)
– warnings
– estimated risk and concerned areas
– accidents
Feed-back
Phone – about meteorological conditions,
estimated avalanche risk, state of the
mountaneous rutes and skiing areas - to:
– National Mountain Rescue Center
– Regional Mountain Rescue Public Services
(from the Făgăraş and Bucegi Mountain area)
– Meteorological Services
Feed-back
• Positive feedback :
– A great number of callings for complete informations about:
• snow state and conditions
• estimated risk level
• accesible areas – restricted areas
• restriction duration (especially in week-ends, legal free days and
vacations)
– Professional assistance demands on the high areas sport
competitions
• Negative feedback :
– ignoring the warnings of the Mountain Rescue Teams and
Meteorological Services – the march 7, 2007 avalanche in the
Făgăraş Mountains
Future development
• Extending the number of snow observation locations in other
mountain massifs
• Information based on observations made by the mountain rescue
teams, in places were there are no meteorological stations
• Displaying the nivo-meteorological bulletins in the starting points to
the risk areas
• Proper marking of the risk areas
• Proper legislation about avalanches accidents prevention
• Increasing the educational actions concerning the specific
mountaneous conditions and risks, as well as the sportif and
recreational activities in the mountain areas, through:
• presentations on the specific sites (touristique, alpine, climbers, etc)
• presentations in schools, high-schools and touristique clubs
• mass-media