消防月刊. - 七月 2017

After the Great Chichi Earthquake of September 21, 1999, to protect people’s lives and property, based on the
attitude of learning from the past, in addition to mourning the dead and becoming extra-vigilant with regard
to the threat of natural disasters, the government also made September 21 every year National Disaster Day
in 2000. The NFA also amended Article 16 of the Disaster Prevention and Rescue Act: “The NFA should
establish a training center to prepare to respond to major disasters” to carry out disaster emergency response
and disaster rescue personnel training.
Deeply aware of the importance of disaster rescue, the NFA gave Nantou County, which suffered a large
number of casualties in the 1999 quake, the responsibility of setting up the world’s third biggest fire service
training center, behind only The Fire Service College in the UK and Texas A&M University Fire Training
Center in the US. The aim is to remind all the members of civil rescue groups, fire department firefighters, and
ROC army disaster rescue personnel trained at the center to always remember the historic tragedies that have
taken place in this. It is these past tragedies that provide us with the motivation to try to always improve!