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Knowledge of the population to ensure its own security and in areas of population protection and fire protection are the basis of a secure society. For this reason, the implementation of preventive educational activities is one of the tasks of entities active in the field of population protection and fire protection. The diploma thesis focuses on the preventive educational activity realized within individual volunteer fire brigades. Population education and prevention themselves are not, by reason of the great demands on the knowledge and abilities of members, areas that volunteer firefighters would actively pursue. The aim of the thesis is to make preventive educational activities more attractive and to facilitate their implementation, for example by organizing a entertaining educational event for the public. That could be a demonstration of the VFB itself or demonstration of other rescue teams for the public which would contribute to increasing the knowledge of the population in the areas of safety. The fulfillment of the goal of the thesis was accomplished by own realization of a fun learning day and incorporating knowledge from the organizational process, including the planning, preparation and implementation period into the methodological manual, which become a guide for members of voluntary fire brigades, how to organize a preventive educational event. This methodical guide is the main output of the work. The actual realization of the event was preceded by investigation of the legal regulations and other available documents and materials, including an analysis of the historical development of education in the field of population protection. These were then compared with my own knowledge and acquired experience within the event organization, evaluation and advices from those who are engaged in preventive educational activities.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to evaluate the activities of the volunteer fire brigades of the district of České Budějovice in the field of the fire prevention and preventive educational activities during the specified period of 2008-2012. Thesis is structured into two main parts, a theoretical part and a part of results. The first part is theoretical, that contains information about the origins of fire prevention, a list of essential legislation and standards that directly relate to the question of fire prevention and preventive educational activities and the outline of the current situation. It is also possible to find there the information, which are intended to characterize the district of České Budějovice in geography and administrative characteristics. In the remaining part of the theoretical section of the thesis describes the different organizations operating in the field of the fire prevention and preventive educational activities, starting from the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, the Association of Firefighters of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia and volunteer firefighters in the end. Next part of this thesis contains a methodology that describes the way of necessary data acquiring for the results part of the thesis. To obtain information concerning the activities of volunteer fire brigades in the field fire prevention and preventive educational activities were approached all of 213 volunteer fire brigades, which operates in the district of České Budějovice, and at the same time, information were approached by the inhabitants of the district of České Budějovice. Respondents from the population were selected based on a stratified selection, during which it was randomly drawn 23 municipalities. In each of the winning communities were as follows, based on deliberate choice after consultation with representatives of the community, selected the identification of sites where polling was done. In this part was stipulated the research question, which were evaluated according the gathered information. Results part of the thesis is divided into several sub-sections. The first of these subsections contains the results of the questionnaire survey, which took place among the volunteer fire brigades in the district of České Budějovice. Only 158 from a total of 213 corps responded to repeated requests for cooperation. It's approximately 74 % of volunteer fire brigades in this district. The results are presented, depending on the nature of the question, either as text or as a graph, which is accompanied by a brief commentary for easier understanding. Similarly is addressed the second subsection, which contains the results detected under the questionnaire survey among the residents of the district of České Budějovice. This section contains the results either in text form, whether there was a so-called open question where respondents had the opportunity to express their opinions in their own words, or in a graphical representation of using the graph, if there was a question where respondents chose from pre-prepared answers. In the chapter titled Evaluation of the activities of volunteer fire brigades are results obtained from volunteer fire brigades and residents summed to a total overview shown in several tables. Research question, which was formulated in the methodological section, was evaluated and possible measures through which it would be possible to improve the present situation, was suggested according the research. Six proposals were determined to improve present situation. Overall, the proposed measures aim two main tasks, to clearly define the meaning of existence volunteer fire brigades in today's society and to encourage volunteer fire brigades in activities in the field of fire prevention and preventive educational activities.