Kolekcionar vatrogasnog znakovlja

Dobrovoljno vatrogasno društvo Bregana osnovali su Mijo Dolinar, Franjo Jelinek, Vid Vugrinec, Stjepan Kovačić, Franjo Pimat, Rafael Šinkovec, Ernest Hribar, Hinko Prišlin i Matija Stijemo 7. veljače 1909. godine. Društvo je u sastavu Vatrogasne zajednice grada Samobora a djeluje na području Bregane i okolice te Žumberka i Žumberačkog gorja. Društvo je za svoj rad nagrađeno Priznanjem grada Samobora za životno djelo 2009. godine, odlikovanje Zagrebačke županije za posebne zasluge 2008. godine, zlatnom medaljom Hrvatske vatrogasne zajednice 2009. godine dok su Povelju Đure Deželića te orden zasluge za narod sa srebrnom zvijezdom primili 2005. godine. Od večih intervencija izdvojimo požar šume Oštrc 2006. godine, šume Tisovac 2008. godine, gašenje požara u Trudbeniku (Šavrić) 2010. godine, gašenje požara u Eko- selu 2010. godine te kod poplava u Grdanjcima 2014. i 2015. godine. 

The Bregana Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded by Mijo Dolinar, Franjo Jelinek, Vid Vugrinec, Stjepan Kovačić, Franjo Pimat, Rafael Šinkovec, Ernest Hribar, Hinko Prišlin and Matija Stijemo on February 7, 1909. The company is part of the Fire Brigade of the city of Samobor and operates in the area of Bregana and its surroundings and Žumberak and Žumberak mountains. For its work, the Society was awarded the City of Samobor Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, the Zagreb County Decoration for Special Merit in 2008, the Croatian Fire Brigade Gold Medal in 2009, while the Đuro Deželić Charter and the Order of Merit for the People with a Silver Star in 2005. years. Among the larger interventions, we single out the fire of the Oštrc forest in 2006, the Tisovac forest in 2008, the firefighting in Trudbenik (Šavrić) in 2010, the firefighting in Eko-selo in 2010 and the floods in Grdanjci in 2014 and 2015.