Bremerhaven Fire Brigade
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![Bremerhaven coat of arms [1]](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wappen_Bremerhaven.svg){kind=small} Office of the City of Bremerhaven
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| Professional fire brigade | |
| Founding year: | 1893 |
| Locations: | 1 |
| Employee: | 298 |
| Volunteer firefighter | |
| Founding year: | 1909 |
| Departments: | 3 |
| Active members: | 88 |
| Youth fire brigade | |
| Groups: | 3 |
| Members: | 58 |
| www.feuerwehr-bremerhaven.de | |
The Bremerhaven Fire Brigade is the fire protection and rescue service organization of the seaside town of Bremerhaven in the state of Bremen . It is divided into the professional fire department and the volunteer fire department .
Professional fire brigade
The professional fire brigade has been housed in the Central Fire Station (ZFW) since 1980 , from which the city center can be reached within four minutes and any other point in the city in less than eight minutes. The integrated regional control center Unterweser-Elbe (IRLS-UE) as well as a staff room for large-scale operations , vehicle hangars for fire and rescue vehicles and numerous workshops are located in this station. In addition, this station has administrative rooms, rooms and facilities for training and exercise, and a guard area for the alarm department. Three guard departments are alternately responsible for fire protection according to a fixed shift pattern.
The following vehicles are available (2015): 8 emergency control vehicles (ELW), 3 rescue group vehicles (HLF 24/20/2), 2 turntable ladder vehicles ( DLK 23/12), 4 tank fire engines (TLF 16/25), 1 tank fire engine (TLF 24 / 48), 1 equipment trolley for dangerous goods (GW-G), 1 equipment trolley for technology (GW-Technik), 1 equipment trolley for water rescue (GW-W), 3 lifeboat trailers (RBA), 3 swap-loader vehicles (WLF) with 12 settling containers (AB), 1 Rüstwagen (RW), 1 60-t crane (FWK), 3 team transport vehicles (MTF), 3 transport vehicles with loading, 1 Stomerzeugungsanhänger (SEA), 1 ABC exploration vehicles (ABC-ErkKW) and 1 multi-purpose vehicle (MZF).
After the fire-fighting cruiser Weser was decommissioned , two tugs were converted into fire- fighting tugs (Bugsier 4 and Geeste), which can be used by the professional fire brigade if necessary.
Voluntary fire brigades
In addition to the professional fire brigade, the Bremerhaven fire brigade also has three volunteer fire brigades, each of which has around 30 members.
Lehe volunteer fire department
The Lehe volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1998. It occupies currently a Löschgruppenfahrzeuge LF Kat-S , an assistance delete vehicle 20 (HLF), a hose wagon SW 2000 and a crew transport vehicle (MTF).
Weddewarden volunteer fire department
The volunteer fire brigade Weddewarden was founded in 1928 and has a tank fire engine 16/25 and a fire fighting vehicle LF Kat-S .
Wulsdorf Volunteer Fire Brigade
The Wulsdorf Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded in 1998. It has a tank fire engine 16/25 as well as a medium fire engine (MLF) with additional loading (scissors / spreader / lifting bag / traffic protection / 2 × PPE / waste water pump (Mini Chimsee) / power generator). The vehicle is loaded to 8.5 t. At the moment (2015) the FF-Wulsdorf has 50 members (30 active members and 20 in the youth fire brigade).
Youth fire brigade
There are three youth fire brigades (JF) in Bremerhaven : JF Weddewarden, JF Lehe and JF Wulsdorf from 2013.
history
Lehe
Lehe first had a fire engine in 1719 and from 1818 to 1895 a fire fighting company as a compulsory fire brigade . In 1893 a volunteer fire brigade was founded.
Geestendorf / Geestemünde
Geestendorf introduced a compulsory fire brigade in 1818 and converted it into a volunteer fire brigade in 1858 and a vigilante corps in 1864.
In Geestemünde there was a compulsory fire brigade from 1858 before the town was founded (1874). After the union with Geestendorf in 1888, there was a gymnast fire brigade from 1890 and the professional fire brigade from 1921.
Wulsdorf founded his volunteer fire department in 1892.
Wesermünde
Wesermünde was created in 1924 from Lehe and Geestemünde; In 1924 the Wesermünde District Fire Brigade Association was created.
Weddewarden came to Wesermünde in 1927 and founded a volunteer fire brigade in 1928.
Schiffdorferdamm was incorporated in 1927 and had a volunteer fire brigade since 1897.
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven (today in the middle ) had a syringe house on the dike in 1828 and a fire extinguishing station from 1851. The professional fire brigade was founded in 1893 and there was still a reserve fire brigade until 1912.
Wesermünde / Bremerhaven
Since 1932, all fire brigades in Wesermünde and Bremerhaven have been under one central management. At this time (1933) the Bremerhaven fire brigade consisted of 43 fire brigade officers and that of Wesermünde had 23 employees.
In 1940 the district fire brigade association and the volunteer fire brigades were dissolved. The fire protection police existed as a professional fire brigade with 65 men.
In 1946 the US Army built its fire department in Bremerhaven with German civilian employees. In 1953 the guard in Auestrasse was returned to the city.
After 1945 there was a professional fire brigade with 89 men (1945), which was detached from the police and was structured around 1950 for the areas Bremerhaven-Nord (Hauptwache I, Feuerwache IV Leherheide and Freiwillige Feuerwehr Weddewarden) and Bremerhaven-Süd (Fire Station II Geestemünde and Fire station III Wulsdorf). In 1968 there were 156 civil servants and 10 employees in the professional fire brigade. The central fire station next to the Bremerhaven-Mitte motorway slip road to the A 27 was built at a cost of around DM 40 million and inaugurated in 1980; the previous fire stations were given up or torn down.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual press report 2017
- ^ Website of the Bremerhaven Fire Brigade as of January 26, 2015
- ↑ Bremerhaven Fire Brigade Scania P360 Lentner HLF20 / 16 on May 18th, 2019 at the RettMobil in Fulda - Fahrzeugbilder.de. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Wulsdorf Volunteer Fire Brigade
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 17.8 ″ E