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Abstract

This work deals with landfill fires. In the chapters of the theoretical part, there are mentioned the basic terms of problems concerning waste and landfill’s separation. There is also a chapter devoted to burning of the waste and gas resulting from landfill. In the next part, there is presented statistics of landfill’s fires in the region of Pardubice. The following part contains the selection of the parameters that are used for the evaluation processes and operations according to the methodological sheet. Then there is a chapter dealing with dipping of burning waste into water tank. The requirement’s evaluation of the force and instruments, application and the impact on the environment has been done. In the last chapter, there are described dangers which can threaten the involved firefighters during liquidation of landfill’s fire. In the attachment, there is the methodological sheet supplemented with findings.