{"id":40720,"date":"2026-09-09T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/2026\/09\/09\/futuro-emergenza\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:30:53","slug":"futuro-emergenza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/2026\/09\/09\/futuro-emergenza\/","title":{"rendered":"REAS 2026: The future of the Italian emergency response system in Montichiari"},"content":{"rendered":"

REAS celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary and is preparing to bring together Italy\u2019s emergency response sector from Thursday, October 8, to Saturday, October 10, 2026<\/strong>, at the Centro Fiera Montichiari (Brescia). Launched in 2001 with a focus on the volunteer sector, it is now Italy\u2019s leading trade fair for firefighting, first aid, civil protection, disability services, and workplace safety. For the first time, the event will run from Thursday to Saturday\u2014without opening on Sunday\u2014aiming to strengthen professional dialogue while maintaining its vital connection to the volunteer community.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwenty-five years of history mark a significant milestone, but above all, a new starting point,\u201d states Ezio Zorzi<\/strong>, Director of Centro Fiera Montichiari. \u201cREAS has grown alongside the Italian emergency response system, keeping pace with its technological and organizational evolution. With this new Thursday-to-Saturday format, we aim to foster technical exchange, training, and relationship-building among companies, institutions, professionals, and volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

A comprehensive exhibition offering for the emergency sector<\/h4>\n

Spanning eight halls and over 30,000 square meters, REAS attracts more than 30,000 visitors from over 50 countries and exhibitors from more than twenty nations at each edition, covering the four key sectors that define its identity: firefighting, first aid and disability aids, civil protection, and workplace safety. The event is an international trade fair certified under ISO 25639:2008<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On display are vehicles for firefighting and natural disaster response\u2014including units designed for flood or earthquake scenarios\u2014as well as ambulances, drones, robots for locating missing persons, digital coordination solutions, and water rescue technologies. Significant emphasis is also placed on wildfire management, featuring solar-powered sensors, thermal drones, turbines, fire-retardant foams, and AI platforms for satellite data analysis.<\/p>\n

Institutions, State bodies, and the voluntary sector: the link with the national system.<\/h4>\n

Over the past twenty-five years, REAS has built a strong bond with the Italian emergency management system, thanks to the involvement of public bodies, regional authorities, state agencies, volunteer groups, and industry associations. The trade fair\u2019s growth is also driven by an internationalization strategy, featuring a joint organizational effort involving Centro Fiera Montichiari, Hannover Fairs International GmbH<\/strong>, and INTERSCHUTZ<\/strong>\u2014the world\u2019s leading trade fair for fire and rescue\u2014under a partnership launched in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cREAS continues to establish itself as a key reference point for the emergency sector, both in Italy and abroad, while also serving as a platform for networking and partnerships between Italian and German companies and associations,\u201d comments Andreas Z\u00fcge<\/strong>, Managing Director of Hannover Fairs International. \u201cWe intend to further expand our collaboration in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The training mission: knowledge, practical training, and operational exchange.<\/h4>\n

Alongside the exhibition itself, REAS will feature an extensive program of conferences, workshops, seminars, and practical demonstrations aimed at professionals working in emergency response, firefighting, and rescue operations.<\/p>\n

Scheduled events include a roundtable on forest firefighting (AIB)<\/strong>\u2014organized by the magazine *La Protezione Civile Italiana*\u2014which will review the summer campaign and facilitate discussion on prevention, monitoring, and suppression efforts. Also on the agenda is the “Giuseppe Zamberletti” Trophy<\/strong>, organized for Saturday by Prociv Italia to honor the founder of the Civil Protection service, as well as demonstration sessions and vehicle trials. A highlight of the comprehensive program of conferences and in-depth sessions is “Exercise Organisation Training: Design, Planning, Conduct, and Evaluation<\/strong>“\u2014an international training course under the European PPRD East 4 project, organized by CISOM and offered during the fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REAS celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary and is preparing to bring together Italy\u2019s emergency response sector from Thursday, October 8, to Saturday, October 10, 2026, at the Centro Fiera Montichiari (Brescia). Launched in 2001 with a focus on the volunteer sector, it is now Italy\u2019s leading trade fair for firefighting, first aid, civil protection, disability services, … Continue reading REAS 2026: The future of the Italian emergency response system in Montichiari<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-209","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41102,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40720\/revisions\/41102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reasonline.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}