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A defence for every scale

Around a community, around a building, or deployed as the fire approaches: WUIProtect® is a tool that supports the emergency services.

WUIProtect® is a Valencian patent, 100% produced and manufactured in Europe, which since its first project in 2006 has helped protect natural and populated areas. It can also protect recreation areas, campsites, nature classrooms, industrial sites, hotels, tourist areas and critical infrastructure.

Collective defence

At community scale

Our flagship. The collective version combines four main lines of action:

  1. Preventive and self-protection planning: assess the risk and design solutions for each scenario; decide what to do, how, when and with which resources.
  2. Preventive silviculture and fire-smart gardening: manage the surrounding vegetation and gardens so that the edges of villages, homes, industrial sites or tourist areas become a line of defence.
  3. Infrastructure and sensors: water tanks, cannons that irrigate the perimeter, green firebreaks and wireless sensor networks that monitor the risk and the effect of prescribed irrigation.
  4. Training and drills: know what to do so that the risk never materialises (prevention) and what to do if it does (self-protection).

Housing estates protected by the system

Domestic defence

At building scale

Working with a whole community is sometimes difficult: different interests, different budgets or simply a different perception of risk can make a collective defence unworkable. At other times, an isolated building needs protecting: a rural guesthouse, a restaurant or a hotel in the mountains.

For these cases we have designed a domestic self-protection option. From the surrounding garden to windows, shutters and contact areas with forest vegetation, we design tailored solutions that use water from the swimming pool, a tank or an ornamental fountain. The system can be automated and activated from a phone.

Portable defence

The Zapadores portable unit

Once we were defending communities and homes, some emergency professionals asked us: could it be made portable? After many trials, the Zapadores unit was born (sold as SIDEINFO® Zapadores): a portable unit that can be set up anywhere and fed from swimming pools, ponds, cisterns, rivers or any other non-conventional water source. Vallfirest distributes it worldwide.

Canary Island councils, Spain’s Military Emergencies Unit and the fire services of Valencia and Catalonia, among others, have added it to their operational catalogue to defend populated areas.

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Services using the Zapadores unit

  • Cabildo de Gran Canaria
  • Bombers de la Generalitat de Catalunya
  • Cabildo de La Palma
  • Cabildo de La Gomera
  • Bombers de València
  • Cabildo de El Hierro
  • Cabildo de Tenerife
  • Protecció Civil de Xàbia
  • Unidad Militar de Emergencias
  • Protecció Civil de Carcaixent
  • Protecció Civil de Guadassuar
  • Consorcio Provincial de Bomberos de Málaga

Interface Tactical Units

UTI: prepare and defend

After the portable solution we designed the Interface Tactical Units (UTI): the equipment needed to defend a specific stretch of perimeter —for example, 500 metres of urban edge— mounted on a trailer or light vehicle for easy deployment. They follow the “prepare and defend” tactic, which requires some lead time before the flame front arrives.

They can be deployed by professional or civil protection units with basic training, under the direction of the sector commander or the incident command. Agility and defensive strength for populated areas, critical infrastructure or sites where crews cannot stay for safety reasons.

Technical Support Unit

Technical assistance during emergencies

Medi XXI GSA provides technical assistance and support during emergencies, with specialist staff who can join the advisory committee provided for in emergency plans under emergency and civil protection regulations.

Mapping, weather data analysis or support with emergency communication: our Technical Support Unit has worked with emergency services across Spain.

Self-protection. Flexibility. Effectiveness.

WUIProtect is installed in several housing estates and comes in versions for every setting. Tell us what you want to protect.

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