Aachen fire brigade

Aachen fire brigade
Office of the City of Aachen
Hauptwache
Professional fire brigade
Founding year:	1871
Locations:	4th
Employee:	357
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year:	1836
Departments:	12
Active members:	523
Youth fire brigade
Founding year:	1972
Groups:	3
Members:	100
www.feuerwehr-aachen.de

The Aachen fire brigade , as department (FB) 37 of the Aachen city ​​administration, reports to Department V “Personnel, Organization and Social Affairs”. It is divided into a professional fire brigade (BF) with four fire stations (FW) and a volunteer fire brigade (FF) with twelve locations.

history

Great city fire in 1656

City fire Aachen
(old painting)

On May 2, 1656 , a great catastrophe broke out in the city when Peter Maw's bakery below Jakobstrasse caught fire and almost the entire city caught fire within 20 hours. According to an official census, the great city fire destroyed 4,664 of the approximately 5,300 houses in Aachen, and 17 deaths were recorded. Medieval Aachen with its Gothic buildings almost completely fell victim to the flames, only the stone Aachen Cathedral was spared. Rapid and effective fire fighting was not possible at that time. As a result, several fire regulations were issued, which contained, among other things, regulations on fire fighting, fire prevention, provisions on the obligation to extinguish the residents and the availability of water and extinguishing equipment.

Foundation of the volunteer fire brigade

In March 1836 the fire brigade was reorganized and a fire corps in the form of a volunteer fire brigade was set up. It was divided into eight companies, a rescue company and a craft company. The first colonel of the fire corps was the then mayor Josef Tilmans.

However, at the latest during a major fire in the Toenis cloth factory in 1866, which could not be fought in time, the organization of the fire brigade was still insufficient. Emil Lochner , also a cloth manufacturer and since February 1, 1866, commander of the fire brigade, took this as an opportunity and published a memorandum on December 19, 1866 with the following demands:

• Establishment of a fire telegraph
• Establishment of a guard post (guard room with syringe) with 12 men of service who are supposed to be on standby at all times
• Construction of a practice house (Steigerturm) for leader exercises
• Division of the fire brigade into three barracked companies on site

Foundation of the professional fire brigade

On November 1, 1871, Emil Lochner's demands were largely implemented. Three companies were barracked in three places in the city and a day watch was set up in the town hall. The three companies were barracked in the newly built fire department barracks in Kasernenstrasse and Oligsbendengasse and in temporarily rented buildings in Klosterbongard (Marienbongard). At that time the fire brigade comprised 111 men in total, of which only three sergeants and three porters were employed. The other teams were rewarded according to the service they performed.

Professional fire brigade

The professional fire brigade (BF) consists of approx. 14 employees and 435 emergency officers, 70 of whom are permanently occupied. Three fire and rescue stations are manned throughout the city. In addition to the Hauptwache (FW 1) with a disengagement area in the city center, FW 2 (Kornelimünster / Süd) and FW 3 (Wache Nord) are also served with their respective catchment areas. Fire protection at the Aachen University Hospital is ensured by a plant fire brigade. In terms of organization and personnel, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as the responsible body, has contractually handed over this task to the city of Aachen, which thus takes on the organizational, personnel and material equipment of the fire department guard (FW 8).

Ambulance service

As the provider of the rescue service, the professional fire brigade runs the rescue service for the city of Aachen (Section 300).

The professional fire brigade is involved in the rescue service with rescue equipment from the North (3), South (2) and Hauptwache (1) guards. Furthermore, the aid organizations German Red Cross , Johanniter Unfallhilfe and Malteser Hilfsdienst are involved in the rescue service and patient transport. Only urban vehicles that are serviced by the fire service's own workshop are used in the rescue service.

In Aachen, the rendezvous system , which is widespread in the region, is used, ambulance and emergency doctor vehicle meet at the scene. The city does not use ambulances. According to the emergency service requirement plan and the result of the last emergency service tender, the following vehicles will be available at the individual locations as of January 1, 2014:

Fire and rescue station 3

• Professional fire brigade:
  • Fire and Rescue Station 1 (Hauptwache, Stolberger Straße)
    • 3 ambulances (RTW) in the basic requirement (1-RTW-1 to -3)
    • 1 ambulance as a heavy-duty ambulance / reserve vehicle (1-RTW-4)
    • 1 ambulance in special needs / reserve vehicle (1-ambulance-5)
    • 2 ambulance vehicles (1-NEF-1 and -2)
    • 2 NEF (peak / special requirements and reserve)
    • 1 ambulance vehicle (KTW) as an infection and reserve vehicle (1-KTW-1)
  • Fire and Rescue Station 2 (South Guard, Kornelimünster)
    • 1 ambulance in the basic requirement (2-ambulance-1)
    • 1 ambulance in peak demand (2-ambulance-2)
  • Fire and Rescue Station 3 (North Guard, Matthieustraße)
    • 1 ambulance in the basic requirement (3-RTW-1)
    • 1 NEF in special needs (3-NEF-2)
    • 1 ambulance in special needs / reserve vehicle (3-ambulance-2)

Ambulance 7

• Aid organizations
  • Ambulance station 4 (Malteser emergency service, 1st guard 4 Auf der Hüls; 2nd KatS accommodation Aachen-Lichtenbusch, Monschauer Straße)
    • 1 RTW peak demand (daily service) (4-RTW-1)
    • 1 ambulance in special needs 1. SET MHD (4-RTW-2)
    • 1 ambulance in special needs 2. SET MHD (4-RTW-3)
    • 1 KTW in special requirements 1. SET MHD (4-KTW-1)
    • 1 KTW in special requirements 2. SET MHD (4-KTW-2)
  • Ambulance station 5 (Johanniter Accident Aid, Rotter Bruch)
    • 1 RTW peak demand (day service) (5-RTW-1)
    • 3 KTW in the basic requirement (daily duty) (5-KTW-1 to -4)
    • 1 ambulance in special needs SET JUH (5-RTW-2)
    • 1 KTW in special demand SET JUH (5-KTW-5)
  • Ambulance station 6 (German Red Cross, Robensstrasse)
    • 1 ambulance in the basic requirement
    • 1 ambulance in the basic requirement (day service), primarily for relocations
    • 1 KTW in special needs SET DRK (6-KTW-1)
  • Ambulance station 7 (Malteser Hilfsdienst and German Red Cross, Vaalser Straße)
    • 1 ambulance in the basic requirement
    • 3 KTW in the basic requirement (day shift, occupied by the MHD) (7-KTW-1 to -3)

Extended ambulance service

The aid organizations also manned rescue equipment if necessary. A so-called SET (rapid response team) consists of a KTW and an ambulance . Reserve vehicles from the regular rescue service or the organization's own vehicles are used for this task.

For the SET-KTW there is currently no alarm option via DME, so these must be requested by telephone from the aid organizations.

vehicles

• Either MB Sprinter with box body or MB Vario are used as ambulances.
• MB Vito are used as emergency doctor vehicles.
• The KTW are all based on MB Sprinter (short version) in different generations.

Civil protection

The medical and care service in disaster control in the city of Aachen consists of the following units:

• 1. Mission unit NRW Aachen-Stadt ( DRK )
• 2nd mission unit NRW Aachen-Stadt ( JUH )
• 3rd mission unit NRW Aachen-Stadt ( MHD )
• 4. Mission unit NRW Aachen-Stadt ( MHD )

For mass casualties (MCI) stands guard on the North, a change loader vehicle (WLF) with Roll-ready (AB MANV 50). This is used together with the medical equipment trolley (GW-San 25) of the emergency units. The four operational units alternate monthly in a rotation process with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th alarm priority.

Smaller medical service situations or care situations are dealt with by individual operational units or the respective medical or care groups.

To implement the state-wide disaster control concepts, Treatment Center Readiness 50 NRW (BHP-50 NRW) and Care Center Readiness 500 NRW (BHP-500 NRW), two operational units are organizationally combined. The 1st deployment unit and the 3rd deployment unit form the care center readiness 500 NRW and the 2nd deployment unit together with the 4th deployment unit form the treatment center readiness 50 NRW. In order to ensure that the staff is manned, the units that are not affected are also alerted during exercises or operations so that personnel support can be provided if necessary. The voluntary units are alerted by means of digital message receivers.

Furthermore, when a patient transport train 10 NRW (PTZ-10 NRW) is requested, the individual vehicles and crews are essentially pulled together from the operational units.

Volunteer firefighter

Sief fire station (former village school)

The volunteer fire brigade (FF) consists of eleven fire engines and one CBRN train (train numbers in brackets):

• Fire fighting train Richterich (10): MTF, MTF (youth fire brigade), LF 20-KatS, LF 8/6, TLF 16/24-Tr
• Extinguishing train Laurensberg (11): MTF, LF 10, LF 20-KatS (federal procurement), TLF 3000
• Fire fighting train north (12): MTF, LF 10, LF 20-KatS, LF 16-TS, TLF 3000
• Fire fighting train middle (13): MTF, LF 10, LF 16/12, GW-Tech, TLF 8/18 LF 20-KatS (state procurement)
• Extinguishing train Haaren (14): MTF, LF 8/6, TLF 3000, LF 20-KatS
• Fire brigade Verlautenheide (15): MTF, MTF (youth fire brigade), LF 20-KatS, LF 10, TLF 24/50,
• Fire fighting train Eilendorf (16): MTF, LF 10 LF 16-TS, GW-Tech, TLF 16/24 Tr, LF 20-KatS
• Fire extinguishing train fire (17): MTF , MTF (youth fire brigade), LF 10/6 , GW-Tech, LF 16/12, LF 20-KatS
• Fire fighting train Kornelimünster (18): MTF, LF 10, LF 20-KatS, TLF 3000, SW 2000-Tr
• Fire fighting train Walheim (19): MTF, LF 10, TLF 16/24-Tr, TLF 3000
• Fire fighting train Sief (20): MTF, LF 10, TLF 3000, TLF 16/24-Tr
• CBRN train (21): MTF, ABC-ErkKW , DMF , decon truck P

In addition, the youth fire brigade is part of the FF.

• A logistics unit, a pilot group and the map office (22) are subordinate to the professional fire brigade as management units.

Special forces

The special rescue group (SRG) Height Rescue has consisted of around 20 officers from the professional fire brigade since 1996. She can also be requested for regional missions and moves out in the rendezvous system. One vehicle each is stationed on FW 1 and FW 3.

Floriansdorf Aachen

Based on the model of the Floriansdorf Iserlohn , a euregional Floriansdorf was created in 2005 with the help of sponsors at Fire Station 3.

Under the motto Experience, Understand, Learn - Children Help Prevent Fires takes place here, supervised by the fire brigade associations of the city and the district of Aachen, fire protection education and fire protection education. Here is also the location of the Color Dome, an experimental building of the RWTH Aachen and the energy house of the Stadtwerke Aachen .

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  Floriansdorf with the Colourdome in front of the fire station

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  Colourdome and training room for the directing units

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  "Fire station"

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  Village view

literature

• Professional fire brigade Aachen (Ed.): 125 years professional fire brigade Aachen . People protect people. Meyer and Meyer , Aachen 1996, ISBN 978-3-89124-392-3 ( delzepich.de [accessed on May 4, 2016]).

Web links

• Website of the Aachen fire brigade
• Website of the fire engine Walheim (19)
• Rescue service requirement plan 2014 of the city of Aachen
• Fire protection plan 2019 City of Aachen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Floriansdorf
2. ↑ Colourdome ( Memento from December 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Stadtwerke Aachen Aktiengesellschaft: Energiehaus ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 37.8 ″  N , 6 ° 6 ′ 58.1 ″  E