Bochum fire brigade

Bochum fire brigade
Office of the City of Bochum
Professional fire brigade
Founding year:	1901
Locations:	3 FuRW, 5 RW / NA
Employee:	502 (as of 2018)
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year:	1869
Departments:	14 + 2 special units
Active members:	405 (as of 2018)
Youth fire brigade
Groups:	9
Members:	173
Children's fire brigade
Groups:	1
Bochum fire brigade

The Bochum fire brigade is a municipal authority of the city of Bochum . It consists of a professional fire brigade founded in 1901 and fourteen volunteer fire brigades and, as Office 37, is subordinate to Department III: Personnel, Law and Order. She takes on tasks in the area of fire protection , technical assistance and rescue services . The chief employer of the Bochum fire brigade is the Lord Mayor of the city of Bochum.

The fire brigade and rescue service vehicles deploy over 150 times a day. The majority of the approximately 60,000 missions per year are carried out by the rescue service.

tasks

The tasks of the fire brigade in Bochum arise mainly from the "Law on fire protection, assistance and disaster control (BHKG)" and the "Law on rescue services and emergency rescue and patient transport by entrepreneurs" of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. As part of its duties, the fire brigade takes care of the defense and removal of dangers to people, animals, property and the environment caused by fires, accidents or environmental influences. In addition, there are tasks in the area of ​​preventive fire protection (fire protection reports, fire shows, etc.). Further tasks include training and advanced training for fire and rescue services.

Ambulance duties

In the area of ​​the rescue service, the Bochum fire brigade is responsible for transporting the ambulance, emergency rescue and emergency medical services. These tasks are carried out together with the German Red Cross , Johanniter Unfallhilfe , the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and Falck Rettungsdienst GmbH .

Protection goals

For fire-fighting operations, the response time defines an arrival time of 10 fire fighters within ten minutes of the alarm time in 80% of the city area. This target was met in 82.62% of all missions in 2016.

In the area of ​​the rescue service, the aim is that in 90% of all cases an ambulance and an ambulance vehicle (if this was initially considered necessary) must arrive at the emergency location within a maximum of ten minutes after accepting the emergency call.

Professional fire brigade

organization

The Bochum fire brigade (Stadtamt 37) is headed by a chief fire director as head of department. Two staff units and five departments report to him:

• 37 S-AL - Headquarters Staff
• 37 ÄLRD - Medical management of the rescue service
• Unit 37 1 - Administration
• Section 37 2 - Basic and advanced training / deployment planning
• Unit 37 3 - Operations
• Unit 37 4 - Preventive Fire Protection
• Section 37 5 - Technology

Fire brigade locations

The Bochum fire brigade maintains a total of three fire and rescue stations in the urban area of ​​Bochum. In addition to the fire brigade's fire engines, ambulances are also stationed here.

Various workshops and special units are also located at the individual guards:

• The workshop for breathing apparatus is housed at FRW I, where breathing protection training and fire fighting training take place and the special task force at height rescue is stationed here.
• The workshop for medical products is located at FRW II.
• The rescue service school moved into its own building on Bessemerstrasse in summer 2020.
• The HFRW III is the main watch of the professional fire brigade. In addition to the office management, the office management staff and the medical director of the rescue service are housed here. The departments for administration, training / deployment planning, operational services and preventive fire protection also have their offices here. In the area of ​​technical services, the motor vehicle, radio, equipment and hose workshop were housed at HFRW III.

guard	Art	Location	Wax strength
FRW I	Fire and rescue station	Grünstraße 31-37, 44867 Bochum	89 forces in three departments
FRW II	Fire and rescue station	Bessemerstraße 26, 44793 Bochum	96 emergency services in three departments
HFRW III	Fire and rescue station	Brandwacht 1, 44894 Bochum	172 emergency services in three departments

Emergency service locations

In order to be able to perform the tasks in the rescue service, there are currently three rescue stations with NEF locations, three rescue stations and two individual NEF locations in the urban area of ​​Bochum . These are staffed either in 12-hour shifts or around the clock.

guard	Art	Location	Busy by
1 - West	Ambulance	Grünstraße 31–37, 44867 Bochum (at FRW I)	Professional fire brigade
2 - middle	Ambulance	Bessemerstraße 26, 44793 Bochum (at FRW II)	Professional fire brigade
3 - east	Ambulance & NEF location	Brandwacht 1, 44894 Bochum (at the HFRW III)	Professional fire brigade
4 - Weitmar	Ambulance & NEF location	Hattinger Strasse 410, 44795 Bochum	DRK, Johanniter, Falck
5 - Weitmar	Ambulance	Wohlfahrtstrasse 124, 44799 Bochum	ASB
6 - Ehrenfeld	NEF location	Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, 44789 Bochum (at the BG University Clinic Bergmannsheil )	Professional fire brigade
7 - grumbles	Ambulance & NEF location	Gudrunstraße 56, 44791 Bochum (at the St. Josef Hospital Bochum ) & Max-Greve-Straße 40, 44791 Bochum (at Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe eV)	Professional fire brigade, Johanniter
8 - Wattenscheid	NEF location	Voedestraße 79, 44866 Bochum (at the Martin Luther Hospital )	Johanniter

Volunteer firefighter

The Bochum volunteer fire brigade consists of fourteen extinguishing units with around 400 members. These either have their own fire stations in the city or share their location with the professional fire brigade. In addition, two special units have been established that take on specific tasks and are independent units.

The volunteer fire brigade in Bochum is usually alerted to support the professional fire brigade. Smaller assignments are also processed independently. In addition, the volunteers are deployed when the forces of the respective professional fire brigade are tied to a deployment site for a longer period and cannot work on further deployments at the same time.

Section I - South / West

Extinguishing unit	Location	Abbreviation	comment
Günnigfeld	Osterfeldstr 35, 44866 Bochum, Germany	LE11	Shares the fire station with SE-V 41
pagan	Bochumer Str. 69, 44866 Bochum	LE12	-
Wattenscheid center	Grünstraße 31-37, 44867 Bochum	LE13	At the FRW I
Höntrop	Höntroper Str. 97, 44869 Bochum	LE14	Together with the Eppendorf extinguishing unit
Eppendorf	Höntroper Str. 97, 44869 Bochum	LE15	Together with the Höntrop extinguishing unit
Special unit catering	Osterfeldstr 35, 44866 Bochum, Germany	SE-V 41	Shares the fire station with LE11

Section II - middle

Extinguishing unit	Location	Abbreviation	comment
Bochum center	Bessemerstraße 26, 44793 Bochum	LE22	At the FRW II
Altenbochum / Laer	Feldmark 7, 44803 Bochum, Germany	LE23	-
Dahlhausen	Am Sattelgut 11, 44879 Bochum	LE24	-
Stiepel	Kemnader Str. 199, 44797 Bochum	LE25	-
Linden trees	Lindener Str. 147, 44879 Bochum	LE26	-

Section III - North / East

Extinguishing unit	Location	Abbreviation	comment
Fire watch	Brandwacht 1, 44894 Bochum	LE31	At the HFRW III
North	Lothringer Allee 3, 44805 Bochum	LE32	-
Langendreer	Ambergweg 1, 44892 Bochum, Germany	LE33	-
Querenburg	Overbergstrasse 16, 44801 Bochum	LE34	-
Special unit information and communication	Brandwacht 1, 44894 Bochum	SEIuK	At the HFRW III

Youth and children's fire brigade

The youth fire brigade Bochum was set up to secure the next generation of the volunteer fire brigade Bochum . This consists of ten individual youth fire brigade groups, in which a total of 185 girls and boys between the ages of 10 and 17 are members. The tenth youth fire brigade group was last founded in 2019 in Bochum-Langendreer. In 2018 a children's fire brigade was founded in Querenburg for the first time. It consists of ten boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve.

Documentation - "Fire and Flame"

In June 2019, filming began for the third season of Fire & Flame - With firefighters on duty at the Bochum fire department. After the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade decided against a third season, the work of the Bochum fire brigade is now shown. It was filmed at fire and rescue stations II and III. The new episodes were broadcast from March 23, 2020, in the media library from March 19, 2020.

Web links

• Website of the Bochum fire brigade

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Department distribution plan" ( PDF , 116 kB), accessed on June 17, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c} “Annual Report 2018” ( PDF , 7.12 MB), accessed on June 17, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} "2018-2022 Fire Protection Requirements Plan of the City of Bochum" ( PDF , 7.15 MB), accessed on June 17, 2019
4. ↑ "Tasks of the fire brigade and rescue service" , accessed on June 17, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} Rescue service requirement plan of the city of Bochum 2018 to 2022 ( PDF , 6.51 MB), accessed on June 17, 2019
6. ↑ "Reorganization of emergency medical vehicles improves prompt patient care" , accessed on June 17, 2019
7. ↑ Andreas Rorowski: WDR Documentation: Bochum will soon be fire and flame , accessed on June 17, 2019
8. ↑ 3rd season of "Fire & Flame" starts on March 23rd! In: feuerwehrmagazin.de. Feuerwehrmagazin, January 31, 2020, accessed on April 4, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Fire & Flame - Trailer Season 3 on YouTube }

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