Title: Birinci Yangın Ulusal Kurultayı Bildirileri
Description: “Proceedings” edits the papers presented in “The First National Meeting on Fire Fighting” that was held in Ankara ,Turkey,during 9-11th December, 1981. The Meeting has been initiated by the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University ( METU ) / Ankara  as a part of the celebration activities not only of the 25th anniversary of METU’s foundation but also been accepted to be within  the national commemoration programs  for the Centenary of Atatürk’s Birth, that was collaborated by United Nations and UNESCO. The Meeting was sponsored by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey ) and participated by the Construction and Bases Department of Turkish Naval  Forces HQ and GATA Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Plastic Surgery Department . 

The volume includes 30 selected papers covering both practical and theoretical aspects, ranging a wide variety of topics from fire prevention measures, kinds of fires, medical treatment  types to the  available fire extinguishment technologies and  fighting strategies.

During the Meeting products and activities of related private sector firms were exhibited.

“The Second National Meeting on Fire Fighting” has not appeared on the horizon yet, though many meetings & workshops on the local or provincial level have been held during the following decades after 1981. As editors ,we shall look for the possibilities of  providing    e-book versions of the Proceedings and we wish that the celebration of 30th Anniversary of the First National Meeting , in year 2011, may give rise to the opportunities for the organization of the Second  and the succeeeding National Meetings on Fire Fighting in future years...

( 422 pages ,in Turkish,+ xxii pages including Introduction, Opening Speeches, 6 pages of Abstracts in English ; Examples from Court Decisions;figures, tables and diagrams , list of participants ; 1100 copies printed, ending with famous dictum “ Scientia Dux Vitae Certissimus” by Atatürk ) 

Editors : Dr. Özcan ESMER ( METU ) &  Ü.Savaş BARAN ( Navy Captain MSEE;Turkish Naval Forces ), Ankara, ( 20 May 2010  )

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Subjects: Burns and scalds, Congresses, Fire extinction, Fire prevention