{"id":1845,"date":"2019-12-10T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2021-05-10T07:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:59:31","slug":"kopos-2020-large-scale-exercise-is-being-planned-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/2019\/12\/10\/kopos-2020-large-scale-exercise-is-being-planned-in-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"KOPOS 2020 Large-scale Exercise Being Planned in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, in Klaip\u0117da, over twenty participants from seven different organizations participated in a preparation meeting about a large-scale oil spill exercise that will be held in Lithuania next April. [EDIT: POSTPONED TO 2021]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise is named KOPOS 2020 \u2013 “kopos” meaning dunes in Lithuanian. It will imitate a large oil spill near the Butinge Terminal<\/a>, both onshore and offshore the Baltic Sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least two local municipalities will mobilize their resources for emergency response with volunteer-led NGOs. All in all, 20 different organizations will be involved in KOPOS 2020. Among them are all project partners from Lithuania: Klaip\u0117da University, Lithuanian Red Cross and the Fire and Rescue Board of Klaip\u0117da County. Other OIL SPILL partners are welcome to join the exercise as observers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, KOPOS 2020 is at the planning phase and the details are agreed upon in the end of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marius Garbenis is the Chief of Fire and Rescue Service of Klaip\u0117da region (left) and
Eugenijus Valikovas is the Chief of Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (right).
Photo by Mindaugas Kruopys. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Participants of the preparation meeting. Photo by Mindaugas Kruopys. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, in Klaip\u0117da, over twenty participants from seven different organizations participated in a preparation meeting about a large-scale oil spill exercise that will be held in Lithuania next April. [EDIT: POSTPONED TO 2021] The exercise is named KOPOS 2020 \u2013 “kopos” meaning dunes in Lithuanian. It will imitate a large …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1125,"featured_media":1851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1],"tags":[48,117],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized","tag-fire-and-rescue-board-of-klaipeda","tag-kopos","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/oilspill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}