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Source: SIŽPAir Quality Deterioration as a Result of Various AccidentsSIŽP, Air Protection Inspectorate Ddivision, in the year 2000 recorded four events that caused Air QualityThreatening and Deterioration Accidents (MOO). MOO trend recorded by SIŽP in this issue in years 1993 – 2000is represented in the following table.Air Quality Threatening and Deterioration Accidents (MOO) in years 1993 – 2000yearno. of recorded MOO in total, of which:events deteriorationthreatening1993 8 8 -1994 1 1 -1995 9 8 11996 5 5 -1997 7 7 -1998 5 5 -1999 3 3 -2000 4 3 1Source: SIŽPFrom the perspective of Air Contaminant Types types (ACT) that contributed to the MOO in the years 1993 –2000, SO2 a NOx escapes were the most frequent – this is supported by data presented in the table below.Trend in the number of MOO by ACTs in 1993 – 2000Air contaminant types (ACTs) 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 SO2 1 - 1 2 2 1 1 2 NOx 1 - 1 2 2 1 1 1 SPM 1 - 1 2 1 1 1 2 CO 1 - 2 2 1 1 1 1 Corg 1 - 1 2 1 1 1 1 H2S - - - - 1 - - - NH3 - 1 - - - - - - Vinyl chloride 1 - - - - 1 - - Chlorine - - - - - - - 1Source: SIŽPFiresThe fire incidence shows that in the period of 1995-1999 50,754 fires that caused direct material damages ofalmost 3 Bill. SK originated in the SR. 290 persons died and 906 suffered various injuries as a result of thesefires. From the monitored causes, the most fires originated as a result of negligence and carelessness ofindividuals (31,180 cases, 61.4% from the overall number of fires). Negligence and carelessness is mostlymanifested during fires that annualy originate during creation of fires in nature and during burning of dry covers.Just from these reasons 19,538 fires originated during the given period, significantly high number of this fire typewas recorded in the year 1998 when 6,406 fires originated as the result of burning and creation of fires in nature.