On March 28th, 2019, Samut Songkhram Education Center, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, together with the Municipality of Samut Songkhram Province, organized training courses "Basic Fire Fighting and Fire Evacuation Drills for the Year 2019” for teachers, staffs, and students to prepare to cope with future accidents and to learn experiences from simulated  situation. Asst. Prof. Dr. Pimporn Thongmuang, Director of the Samut Songkhram  Education Center, was the chairperson and gave opening speech, along with Ajarn Wannee Promdao, Deputy Director of Special Affairs. Teacher Training for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation from Samut Songkhram Municipality have lectured and practiced as follows:
1. The theory of fire prevention and suppression
2. Practice in fire fighting training
3. Test training principles to practice fire fighting and fire evacuation at student dormitory
4. Fire drills and fire evacuation by simulating the situation and  virtual reality

            The project started rehearsing from the fire incident. After that, the primary firefighting team in the area suppress the incident, followed by dormitory staffs and the fire department director acknowledged the sequence in order to enter the evacuation signal process starting from the first person coming out of the building until the last process came to the rally point. Fire extinguisher from the outside came to help the last lost person and transferred to the hospital. The fire department director closed the practice. There was training on press conference for media in order to improve press conference standard for the Public Relations Department by operating procedures and systematically at Samut Songkhram Education Center, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University

Photos: Sathaporn Janyatham

Reporter: Chayanisa Eimparsert