New forms of threat in a globalized international community pose new and greater challenges to crisis management systems requiring appropriate solutions. In this, the issue of national security more and more gives way to civil security focused primarily on individual safety in globalized, multipolar relations characteristic of transnationalism. New threats take on a general transborder character affecting equally all individuals in a certain civilizational environment, regardless of their national, ethnic, religious, cultural or social traits or their social class. The threats are usually directed against social environments governed by different values, but they often endanger the very environment in which they originate. In addressing these new security challenges, fundamental instruments of national security, and firefighting as part of the overall system, must find appropriate answers. Firefighting in Croatia is regulated by the Firefighting Act and by detailed regulations governing the organization of firefighting in local and regional administrations.