Military Emergencies Unit

The Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME ) (Spanish for: Military Emergency Unit) is part of the Spanish armed forces. In her serve around 4,000 professional soldiers.

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Goal and mission of the unit, it is quickly and effectively intervene in Spain in ( natural) disasters or similar situations where there is a threat to public safety and order. The members of the unit are specially trained for rescue operations, especially in the medical service, in use to fight forest fires, floods, landslides, avalanches, or during disasters technical and biological- medical nature, such as Chemical accidents or epidemics. The legal basis for establishing the UME is the agreement of the Spanish Council of Ministers of 7 October 2005.

Equipment

Fire fighting aircraft ( the Spanish Air Force allocated operated by the UME)

  • Canadair CL- 215: 14
  • Canadair CL -415: 3 ( 7 more expected soon )

Helicopter ( the Army Aviation ( FAMET ) allocated operated by the UME)

In addition:

  • Fire engines
  • Amphibious vehicles
  • Various wheeled and tracked vehicles, snow plows
  • NBC protection and defense
  • Rescue dogs
  • Water treatment plants
  • Inflatables

Bases

The UME has seven locations, which are distributed over the whole of Spain.

  • Madrid
  • Leon
  • Zaragoza
  • Valencia
  • Seville
  • Tenerife
  • Las Palmas
Canadair CL-215 Bombardier 415 Province of Valencia Province of Seville Military branch Civil Guard (Spain) Spanish Royal Guard
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