264 pieces of equipment - ranging from heavy-duty chainsaws and professional first aid equipment to power generators and powerful mud pumps - have been donated to 178 volunteer fire departments across Poland.

Today we have signed an agreement outlining the cooperation between the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation and Polish Volunteer Firefighters Association was signed in Bydgoszcz today.

We are donating gear and medical equipment to 178 volunteer fire departments. The equipment is worth 1,5 million PLN and we will be gifting 264 pieces of specialist equipment to volunteers and people who are the first to respond and help their communities.

We have purchased 264 pieces of equipment for 1,5 million PLN, which on Friday will be donated to volunteer fire departments from the areas of Poland struck by disastrous storms this August.

Having seen the scope of destruction hurricanes have wrought in central and northern Poland, we have decided to support first responders on the scene of the natural disaster which struck Poland in August - units of volunteer fire departments.