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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, ARMENPRESS.  The 2022 Firefighter of the Year  ceremony will take place on Thursday at the Central Military Club in the capital. The event is being held for the 28th consecutive year. It will be attended by President Rumen Radev, who will present the special collective award to the team of the Interior Ministry's Directorate General of Fire Safety and Population Protection, said the presidential press service.

For their high professionalism, self-sacrifice and fulfilled duty in saving human lives after the devastating earthquake in the Republic of Turkiye, Rumen Radev will present a presidential badge of  honour to the the Bulgarian teams from Interior Ministry's Directorate General of Fire Safety and Population Protection, Sofia Municipality, 16th Transport Vrazhdebna Air Base, the Military Medical Academy, the Bulgarian Red Cross and the National Association of Volunteers in the Republic of Bulgaria. Each of the participants in the rescue operations will receive a certificate of honour.

For their part, the leaderships of the Ministry of the Interior and the Directorate General of Fire Safety and Population Protection will award the firefighters for their achievements themselves in the past year. During the ceremony, a comprehensive winner and winners for the main areas of activity, including firefighting and rescue activity, fire control and preventive activity, will be announced.

Last year, the Firefighter of the Year award went to Commissioner Darin Dimitrov, director of the Dobrich Regional Directorate of Fire Safety and Population Protection. He was one of the people who led the operation to evacuate nine sailors from the Vera Su ship stranded near the waters of Kamen Bryag.