Economic Aspects of Firefighting Vehicles Safe Driving Within EU Civil Protection

One of the security forces is the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic. Its primary task is to protect lives and health of the population in particular from fires and other emergency and critical situations. FRS CR is involved in providing security of both the population of the Czech Republic, and of other countries of the European Union, in the form of special emergency response teams (Urban Search and Rescue - USAR) sent abroad. These USAR teams are registered in the CECIS (Common Emergency Communication and Information System) international database of the European Union. While performing these public services members of the FRS CR need special fire appliances. The first-response group of firefighting appliances is professionally denominated as firefighting vehicles. Traffic accidents occur occasionally while driving to emergency. Costs connected with these accidents adversely affect the economy of transport and, above all, threaten the operational capacity of fire units. The paper summarizes results of the analysis of the most numerous group of emergency vehicles - water tenders. One of the analysis objectives was to estimate the profile of the driver-fireman who caused the traffic accident.