EMRIC blows out 10 candles this year! But that's not all! We're actually celebrating a triple anniversary because our history goes back much further. Discover here what you can expect on the occasion of this special event.
EMRIC blows out 10 candles this year! But that's not all! We're actually celebrating a triple anniversary because our history goes back much further. Discover here what you can expect on the occasion of this special event.
This morning, EMRIC organized a Euregional control room exercise at the Emergency Dispatch Center 112 in Hasselt (Belgium). This helps to ensure that we are better prepared when a real emergency situation arises!
On March 20, 2024, the annual meeting of N4 took place at the Gouvernement in Maastricht. EMRIC is a member of N4 and was invited to present the EMRIC cooperation as one of the collaboration concepts along the German-Dutch border.
EMRIC stands for Euregio Meuse-Rhine Incident Response and Crisis Management. EMRIC is a unique partnership of government departments and services which are responsible for firefighting, technical assistance, emergency care, infectious disease control, disaster relief and crisis management in their region. In a border-rich region such as the Meuse-Rhine Euregion, foreign emergency services can often arrive faster than their own services. When every second counts, quick help is vital.
This is why CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION IS A NECESSITY.
EMRIC ensures that cross-border cooperation is made possible, because it is by no means self-evident. The methods, systems and laws are so different in the three countries that a lot has to be arranged to be able to cross the border with an ambulance or fire truck. Working, recreating and studying across the border has been a matter of course in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion for quite a while now. However, for a long time that was not the case when it came to helping each other in emergency situations.
Fortunately, a lot has now been arranged, often in collaboration with other governments (national, federal, provincial and municipal). Nowadays, about 900 ambulances cross the border every year to provide the fastest possible assistance and in about 300 cases fire services help each other in case of emergency.
The collaborating partners are the Fire Brigade of the city of Aachen, the Ordnungsamt of the Kreis Heinsberg and the Ordnungsamt of the Städteregion Aachen in Germany, the Governor's Office Province of Limburg and Governor's Office Province of Liège in Belgium and the Veiligheidsregio, GGD Zuid-Limburg and Ambulancezorg Limburg (RAV Limburg) in the Netherlands. These organizations pay for the collaboration and the so-called EMRIC bureau. In addition to these 8 partners, more than 30 services and governments work together with the EMRIC partnership.
All services together implement the treaties on cross-border cooperation that exist between the countries to which the Euregio Meuse-Rhine belongs. Where necessary and possible, the partners in EMRIC also conclude their own agreements for cross-border cooperation.
More information about the EMRIC collaboration can be found on the various pages on this website.