Well that’s a night of my life I won’t forget. Landed nearly 3 hours late in Munich, everything at the airport closed, no one to speak too, all surrounding hotels fully booked, so spent the last 6 hours on rock hard chair. Another 3.5 hours to wait!!

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180km drive, flights via Munich, and Amsterdam so far this morning, but it could have been worse…thanks Lufthansa

Sadly the last time I will need one of these after 11 years as the #EUCPM CMI course has now completed its cycle. It’s been a privilege to teach so many outstanding individuals from across Europe 🇪🇺

More devastating news from Creeslough explosion this morning. I was actually stood in there in August so feels very personal. Thinking of all emergency services, volunteers, and of course families of those missing.

The UCC course is up and running in Rome…25 participants supported by 7 Facilitator’s sharing their knowledge and experience on all aspects of international USAR coordination and operations International Search and Rescue Advisory Group

Rooms all ready to welcome participants to the EU MODEX training of trainers course in Gorlitz, Germany. Looking forward to some interesting discussions.

Well that’s the end of the #EU_modex Train the trainers course. It’s been a pleasure delivering to dedicated professionals from across Europe with an equally fantastic training and staff team.

Not a bad view from the office today…EU MODEX planning for large scale forest firefighting exercise in Portugal

Lots of water this week…early EU MODEX planning meetings in Poland and Czech Republic for large scale flood exercises later in the year.

It’s definitely a feet in front of the fire night

Terrible news from Turkey, bringing back lots of memories of when we responded to the 2 EQs in the 90s. Thoughts are with all of the rescuers hopefully saving as many lives as possible.

Watching teams from all over Europe respond so quickly to assist Turkey and Syria makes my trip to Portugal this week to prepare another EU MODEX even more valuable 🇪🇺

End of a very productive EU MODEX planning meeting for a forest firefighting exercise to take place in May. It promises to be both realistic and challenging for the attending Modules.

Heading home after the latest EU MODEX testing CBRN capacities. Worked with great ExCON, venue and training teams. An array of challenges and sites for the modules to accomplish all week which they did to great effect. EU solidarity at its best 🇪🇺

En route to our next forest/wildland firefighting EU MODEX which starts tomorrow. Final preparations today to make sure the Modules are fully challenged when they arrive. 🇪🇺🇪🇺

An interesting week ahead, with the Resilience Advisors Network team.

Closing ceremony of our exercise in the beautiful region of Marche in the beautiful town of Arcevia. It was a pleasure to have the exercise here and it was an honour to work with all the Teams! #EUModex

Nice to have Irish rugby legend David Kilcoyne give me a suggested name for my new boat at yesterday’s all Ireland hurling final.

How does the EU's common firefighting fleet #rescEU work? 🔗 europa.eu/!qW3B3c