Fire at the Santa Marina de Balboa Church, León (Spain) By Cristina Escudero, Unit for Risk Management and Emergencies in Cultural Heritage (UGRECYL) and PROCULTHER Focal Point (Spain) (1) The accident It was 3 minutes past 8 in the morning of Tuesday 4 May when we received a call from Olivier Bao, Chief of the
By Romain Kimmel, Foreign Policy Officer at French Ministry of Interior – DGSCGC and PROCULTHER Focal Point (1)Special thanks to the Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris for providing the technical information and photos of this intervention In 2017, France had more than 45,000 protected historical monuments. In the event of disaster, civil security forces are
On 7 and 9 June 2021, PROCULTHER project has planned a virtual international workshop entitled: “Defining European Technical and Operational Capacities for the Protection of Cultural Heritage at Risk of Disaster”. Being an initiative within the framework of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), this event is part of the activities intended to sustain
