Lithuania's Fire and Rescue Department

The Government on Wednesday approved the interior minister’s nominations for the new leadership of the Police Department, the Fire and Rescue Department (PAGD) and the Public Security Service (VST).

Police Commissioner General Renatas Požėla has been given a proposal to head the Fire and Rescue Department (PAGD), sources told ELTA.

A woman was fatally injured by a tree uprooted by the wind in Grigiškės, in the west of Vilnius, on Monday, the Fire and Rescue Department has said.

A storm hit most of Lithuania on Thursday but people were not hurt. From Thursday 6 a.m. until Friday 6 a.m. firefighters responded to 66 reports about trees uprooted by high wind and blocking roads.

Eleven artillery shells were discovered in Šilutė district on Tuesday, according to the Fire and Rescue Department (PAGD).

Around 3,300 shelters in Lithuania could accommodate around 30% of the country’s population, says the Vilnius Fire and Rescue Board.

Lithuania's Fire and Rescue Department has received 471 calls by 6 a.m. on Friday over the consequences of the overnight storm that killed one woman and damaged 13 cars.

The first thing people should do in case of an accident at the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus is to stay indoors, Edgaras Geda of Lithuania's Fire and Rescue Department says.

Residents of western Lithuanian regions are being warned about strong winds late on Tuesday.

A Ukrainian man last night was stabbed to death and another two were wounded in Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas, the Police Department said on Thursday.

Firefighters have managed to put four major fires in Lithuania under control.

Firefighters are fighting four major fires in Lithuania on Friday.

A squall on Friday night uprooted trees and caused damage to several residential properties and cars in Lithuania.

On 27 March 2018 officials from eleven state institutions gathered at SE Oro Navigacija to discuss actions to be taken in the event of an aircraft accident or an extreme situation in Lithuania. Also analysed at the meeting were lessons learned after international security awareness exercise, a press...

Aidas Ardzijauskas, a 46-year-old Lithuanian fire-and-rescue officer and ultra-distance runner, on Tuesday is starting an 8,000-kilometer run from Senegal's capital of Dakar to Vilnius.

The Lithuanian Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that a probe had revealed that former heads of the Fire and Rescue Department had exploited their subordinates for at least eight years by making them do free work for their bosses.

The Lithuanian Fire and Rescue Department has warned of strong winds in much of the country on Friday and urged people to be cautious.

Fire and rescue services had to pull cars that have slid off the road and to remove felled tree branches amid snowy and windy conditions in Lithuania on Wednesday and in the early hours of Thursday.

At about noon on Tuesday, rescuers in Vilnius were alerted that the stream of ice flowing down the Neris as the river thaws had torn a barge near the center of the city off of its moorings. The barge, which holds a restaurant named “Barža”, had two people on board.

A Lithuanian fire fighter has run across the United States from the western to the eastern coast. Aidas Girdzijauskas, 42, finished in New York on Friday night, according to Lithuania's Fire and Rescue Department.