Decontamination truck equipment
The decontamination truck equipment (short: Dekon-LKW G or short also Dekon G or Dekon-G ) was a planned decontamination vehicle of the German civil protection and disaster control , which was intended for use in hazardous material accidents or NBC damage situations , but never planned to the end has been. Its loading was designed to decontaminate surfaces, vehicles and equipment.
tasks
The tasks of the decon truck G should have been:
- Decontamination of fire fighting equipment ,
- Decontamination of vehicles,
- Decontamination of tools and other devices.
Short name
The abbreviation for the decontamination truck equipment was Dekon-LKW G, which means:
- Decon = decontamination,
- Truck = truck,
- G = devices.
Background and concept
The multi-purpose decontamination vehicle (DMF) has been part of the NBC protection task area since the early 1970s . In the loading of the DMF there is equipment for decontamination of both persons and devices.
Since the mid-1990s, it was planned to replace the DMF with two types of vehicle in order to be able to use the decon components people and devices independently of one another. The equipment trolley for decontamination personnel was procured since 1998 , the concept for the decontamination truck G was still being developed at that time. During the planning phase, the multi-purpose decontamination vehicle served as a placeholder for the decontamination truck G.
The current equipment concept, which was agreed between the federal and state governments in 2007, no longer provides for a vehicle or equipment for device decontamination. The multi-purpose decontamination vehicle (DMF) acquired in the 1980s will therefore not be replaced in the foreseeable future. The tasks are still carried out by a DMF or other suitable resource. Accordingly, a prototype of the decon truck G was never presented.
Since the youngest DMFs date from the beginning of the 1980s and some units had to be taken out of service due to their age, separate concepts for a decon G component were developed in some places at community or district level as a supplement to decon truck P for disaster control. For example, with the widespread decon truck P according to BA 1013/1998, identical flatbed trucks were equipped with an additional load, and occasionally vehicles based on a GW-L were also loaded accordingly. In professional fire departments, Dekon-P and Dekon-G components are often combined on one roll-off container.