Civil Protection Units intervention results between September 15 and 16, 2026 (in the last 24 hours)

  Between September 15 and 16, 2026 (up to 8:00 AM), Civil Protection units carried out 3,181 interventions—averaging one every 27 seconds—across various provinces in response to distress calls from citizens. These operations covered the full spectrum of Civil Protection activities, including responses to traffic accidents, domestic incidents, medical evacuations, firefighting, and general safety operations.

Regarding traffic accidents, Civil Protection units responded to numerous incidents across the country, conducting 213 interventions. These accidents resulted in four fatalities at the scene and left 279 others with injuries of varying severity; victims received on-site care and were transported by our teams to local hospitals. Civil Protection units also intervened to extinguish two urban fires in the provinces of Algiers and Batna. The first incident involved a fire in a commercial shop on the ground floor of a 15-story building (ground floor + 14) in the Dar El Beida municipality and district (Algiers province), resulting in one person suffering various burns and another experiencing breathing difficulties. The second incident involved a fire in a first-floor apartment of a three-story building (ground floor + 2) in the “Chouhada” neighborhood of Batna municipality and district, causing four people to suffer from breathing difficulties. The victims received on-site care before being transferred to local health centers; emergency teams successfully brought both fires under control and prevented them from spreading to adjacent areas.

Regarding beach and recreational area surveillance operations over the past 24 hours, lifeguards carried out 279 interventions. These efforts resulted in the rescue of 142 people from imminent drowning and the provision of on-site first aid to 131 individuals, while five people were transferred to local health centers. Additionally, one drowning fatality was recorded in the sea in Tipaza province; the victim was a 32-year-old man who drowned in a rocky area known as “Koucha”—a location where swimming is prohibited—within the Tipaza municipality and district. The victim’s body was transferred to the local hospital. During the same period, forest and crop firefighting units intervened to extinguish 12 vegetation fires across various provinces nationwide. These included one forest fire, one bushfire, one scrub fire, two fruit tree fires, three hay bale fires, and four palm tree fires. The rapid and effective intervention of our teams successfully extinguished these fires and prevented them from spreading to surrounding vegetation.