Upon the establishment of firefighting organizations in Croatia, there was a need to print a manual and other literature that would be useful for firefighters to train and familiarize themselves with firefighting equipment. German manuals were first used, and in 1882 Gjuro Stjepan Dezelic published a “Volunteer Firemen’s Training Book”, which was the beginning of Croatian fire publishing. Even today, in the age of modern technology, firefighters’ manuals are an indispensable part of firefighter training.
The Croatian Fire Association has launched a project to digitize historic firefighting material. The goal is to present printed firefighting material to the public and to facilitate researchers’ access to firefighting literature. The primary goal is to scan as many books, manuals and ordinances of the Croatian Fire Association as these editions were the basis for the training and organization of firefighting. Using these books and documents, it is possible to reconstruct the development path of Croatian firefighting.
The first phase covers part of the book and documents in the permanent exhibit of the Croatian Fire Museum and in private collections. The books and documents were scanned in 300 dpi resolution and in pdf format placed on the Croatian Fire Union’s web site. All users of the material are requested to cite the source and the page from which they downloaded the information in their works. We also ask all owners of firefighting literature that has not been scanned so far and posted on the web site to submit it for scanning to the Croatian firefighting association, after which it will be returned to them.
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