Guanajuato, Gto., April 29, 2016. The students' emergency brigade from the Division of Economic-Administrative Sciences (DCEA) of Campus Guanajuato, participated in the sixth edition of the National Intercollege Tournament of Emergency Brigades, where the first place was for the female brigade and the fourth place for the male brigade, improving their 2015 score, when they obtained the third general place.

This tournament's edition, which took place on April 21 and 22 in the School of Training for Emergency Brigades (ECBE for its acronym in Spanish) at the city of Celaya, participated universities from all over the country: Universidad Autónoma de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Universidad de León, Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Instituto Tecnológico de Roque, among others.

The University of Guanajuato was represented by 14 students at DCEA and one from the Division of Engineering, coordinated by Lic. Gilberto Barrientos García, responsible also for the Social Service at DCEA, and advised by the Prof. Juan Arturo Castro López.

Among the trials the brigadiers must do, they are: fire attack with a pressurized hose, fire attack with extinguishers, search and rescue in the smoke house, attention of leaks and hazardous materials and obstacle rally, where the youth place all their knowledge to practice.

The social service project "UG Brigades" emerged in 2010 with the objective to from students to promote the security and hygiene and civil protection in their university community and divulgators of the culture of prevention in their places of origin. This project is considered to be of high social impact and contributes to the goals of the Plan of Institutional Development of the University of Guanajuato.