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We hosted a delegation from Hungary20 April 2019 Saturday

At the same time, the Chief of Hungary Fire Brigade General Tibor Dobson, Hungarian Culture Director Gabor Fodor and his delegation visited us today.

Prior to our guests, we made a detailed presentation about the history and activities of our organization in the Disaster Coordination Center (AKOM). During the interview; As the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Hungarian Fire Brigade in 2020, we exchanged views on what can be done to commemorate Count Odéch Szecheny (Szecheny Pasha), who had great services for firefighting in both countries.

Following the lunch, we visited the Fire Brigade in Beşiktaş, following the Fire Command.

Together with the delegation, we have been in the grave of Count Odön Szechenyi Pasha in Feriköy, 52 years of service to the Fire Brigade, which extinguished the biggest fire of the 19th century in Budapest and for 48 years in Istanbul for 4 years. Then the stance was left a wreath.

The visit, which was presented with mutual gifts, ended after the souvenir photographs were taken.

Count Odön Szecheny, President of the Hungarian National Fire Brigade in London, studying fire-fighting; After the great fire of Beyoğlu in 1871, he came to Istanbul in 1874 with the orders of Sultan Abdülaziz Khan and returned to his hometown after founding a military fire brigade of 4 battalions and 1 naval battalion. A year later, upon the invitation of Sultan Abdülhamit Han, he was in Istanbul again and he continued to work for the Istanbul, as part of the Count Odön Szecheny İstanbul Fire Brigade for 48 years, until 1922.