Wervik entering the zone 30 in the center of the city of Wervik plays fire tricks. Postoverste captain Filip Simoens asks that the zone 30 on the vertrekwegen from the fire station in the gas train is eliminated. “The calls of the firemen was done from the emergency centre in Bruges and calculates a computer program which corps the fastest on-the-spot can be”, says Filip Simoens. “It is often the bijpost Geluwe called in our place and that makes for frustration in our volunteers.”
The postoverste requires the lifting of the zone 30 in the Molenstraat, Bakkerstraat, pigeons street, Stationsstraat, Ommegangstraat and Speiestraat. Since the introduction of the principle of the Fastest Adequate Assistance (SAH) is a intervention of the fire station called the fastest in the interventieplaats may be present. “To determine which fire station the fastest on the spot, use is made of a computer program that is supported by a kind of planner,” said Filip Simoens.
Less calls
“In that the computer program does the calculation on the basis of the maximum permitted speed in a city street. Seen our fire station in the middle of the town and the zone 30 is located, is our calculated speed is slowed down significantly. The result is that neighboring items to be recalled for burn in places where our fire station in Wervik in the past was recalled. When the cruisers have the fire department do not adhere to the speed limits in the zone 30, but precisely because of that calculation, we get no calls for a part of the territory.”
