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Busan Metropolitan City to Strengthen Disaster Response Capabilities on “National Safety Day”: Conducts Smart Integrated Monitoring System Inspection and Practical Training for Storm and Flood Response

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that, in observance of “National Safety Day (April 16),” it will conduct a system inspection and practical training starting at 10:30 a.m. today (the 16th) at the Saha-gu Office CCTV Integrated Control Center (located in Dangni-dong, Saha-gu) and the Hwamyeong Water Leisure Sports Town mooring area to comprehensively assess disaster response capabilities.

This training will be conducted in two areas: ▲ “Prevention of social disasters (industrial complex risks)” at the Saha-gu Office CCTV Integrated Control Center and ▲ “On-site response training for natural disasters (storm and flood damage)” at the Hwamyeong Water Leisure Sports Town mooring area. It aims to establish a prevention-oriented safety infrastructure while strengthening on-site response capabilities and inter-agency cooperation systems.

First, at the Saha-gu Office CCTV Integrated Control Center, the city will review the operational status of the smart infrastructure system designed to prevent safety accidents in aging industrial complexes.

On this day, related agencies including the city, fire department, police, and Korea Industrial Complex Corporation will participate. They will conduct a project briefing and demonstrate the monitoring system under simulated real disaster scenarios such as fire, falling rocks, crime prevention, and flooding.

Meanwhile, the city plans to introduce advanced technologies such as intelligent CCTV within the aging West Busan Smart Valley (formerly the Sinpyeong and Jangnim Industrial Complex) and establish a constant monitoring and response system at the Saha-gu Office CCTV Integrated Control Center inspected today, thereby continuously enhancing safety.

Next, at the Hwamyeong Water Leisure Sports Town mooring area in Buk-gu, on-site response training for storm and flood disasters in preparation for extreme rainfall will be conducted.

This training is part of advance preparations for summer natural disasters and will be carried out as a citizen-participatory practical drill jointly organized by the city and Buk-gu, with the participation of the fire department, police, and local voluntary disaster prevention groups.

The training will reflect the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall due to recent climate change. It will simulate major damage scenarios such as ▲ flooding of underpasses ▲ isolation of citizens in rivers ▲ flooding of low-lying residential areas, and will assess inter-agency cooperation systems and on-site response capabilities.

First, assuming a situation in which a heavy rain warning is issued due to extreme rainfall of 150 millimeters per hour, the mayor will transmit instructions using the Public Safety LTE (PS-LTE) communication network, followed by a training exercise for underpass flooding response. The police will control vehicle access, and the fire department will carry out drainage operations using high-capacity pump trucks.

In particular, the pump trucks deployed in this training are equipment introduced starting in 2025 through the city’s disaster management fund. They have a drainage capacity of 15,000 liters per minute and proved highly effective at an actual flooding site in Section 1 of the Sasang–Hadan Line last year.

Subsequently, a “water rescue operation” will be conducted, assuming citizens are stranded due to rising water levels in the Nakdong River, along with an “evacuation drill for vulnerable groups” in response to flooding in low-lying residential areas.

The fire department will conduct rescue operations using rescue boats, while the police will support the evacuation of vulnerable individuals. Additionally, Buk-gu Office and voluntary disaster prevention groups will strengthen coordinated responses by operating water pumps to drain flooded homes.

Through this training, the city plans to simultaneously inspect both the preventive system based on smart monitoring infrastructure and on-site response capabilities, thereby further strengthening the full-cycle disaster safety management system of “prevention–preparedness–response–recovery.”

Mayor Park Heong-joon stated, “Safety depends above all on proactive prevention, and in the event of a disaster, rapid on-site response and inter-agency cooperation are essential,” adding, “We will continue to strengthen safety management system inspections and training to establish a new standard for a smart safe city.”