Cuxhaven fire brigade
| Cuxhaven fire brigade | |
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 Office of the city of Cuxhaven
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| Professional fire brigade | |
| Founding year: | 2005 |
| Locations: | 1 |
| Employee: | 55 |
| Volunteer firefighter | |
| Founding year: | 1874 |
| Departments: | 12 |
| Active members: | 421 |
| Youth fire brigade | |
| Groups: | 6th |
| Members: | 0 |
| Children's fire brigade | |
| Groups: | 0 |
| Members: | 0 |
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The Cuxhaven fire brigade in Section 700 - Fire Protection and Rescue Services - of the Cuxhaven city administration is divided into the professional fire brigade and a department of the voluntary fire brigade with 11 local fire brigades.
Special tasks of the professional fire brigade are ship firefighting, technical assistance and care for the injured at sea, mudflat and water rescues as well as height rescues, for which the fire brigade forces are also deployed beyond the city limits.
Professional fire brigade
The Cuxhaven professional fire brigade consists of six officers in the upper-level fire service as platoons and operations manager in day and shift work and also provides alternate on-call duty for special situations and 56 civil servants and employees in the middle service . The action officers of the middle service are divided into three watch departments, which each cover the operations of the fire brigade and the rescue service in the urban area of Cuxhaven in 24-hour shift work .
The Cuxhaven professional fire brigade performs around 14,000 fire and rescue services every year. For this purpose, it is a fleet consisting of a command vehicle 1 (ELW 1), an assistance Löschgruppenfahrzeug (HLF 20), a turntable ladder with basket (DLK 23/12), a particular watt rescue vehicle, a personnel carrier vehicle (MTF), a rescue boat , as well as a swap body vehicle with Roll-off containers AB armor, AB hazardous substances, AB ship fire, AB oil service, AB rescue / support and AB special extinguishing agents are available. In order to carry out her rescue service tasks, she also has an emergency doctor vehicle (NEF), three ambulances (RTW) and three ambulances (KTW).
Volunteer firefighter
The Cuxhaven Voluntary Fire Brigade consists of the 11 sub-units Döse , Duhnen , Groden, Sahlenburg , Holte / Spangen , Altenwalde , Stickenbüttel , Altenbruch , Berensch , Lüdingworth and Cuxhaven-Mitte. Some of these maintain a youth fire brigade (JF Döse, JF Altenbruch, JF Lüdingworth, JF Altenwalde, JF Holte-Spangen, JF Sahlenburg). The training is carried out by both members of the professional fire brigade and members of the volunteer fire brigade.
history
After the end of the Second World War, the city of Cuxhaven was commissioned by the British military government to ensure the patient transport in the city of Cuxhaven. On April 1, 1946, the city of Cuxhaven's ambulance service began with three ambulances in an extension of the main fire station . These ambulances were manned by 7 full-time workers, some of whom lived in the building of today's main fire station.
In the 1970s, the fire brigade was also assigned emergency rescue services . Since this could not be adequately taken over by the full-time equipment maintenance staff of the volunteer fire brigade, a full-time watch stand was set up to carry out ambulance transport, workshop service, fire protection and technical assistance. At that time, the emergency calls were still running to the local police station. Then the government ordered the relocation of all fire service emergency call systems and the emergency number 112 to the fire station. For this purpose, the fire station had to be manned day and night. Two guard departments, consisting of 13 men working 12-hour shifts, were set up. These are made up of full-time ambulance workers, equipment control and newly hired fire service personnel. A short time later, they switched to 24-hour shift work.
In the years after the introduction of full-time guard duty, the number of operations and the need for a professional fire brigade in Cuxhaven continued to rise, so that in 1986 additional staff were hired and a third guard department was set up. Since then, the training and further education of the Cuxhaven professional fire fighters has been promoted. Numerous paramedics and later, of course, paramedics were trained. The fire brigade training has since followed the guidelines of the APVO-Feu . In November 2005, the city council converted the full-time guard duty into a professional fire brigade.
Special forces
Ambulance service
The rescue service and ambulance transport in Cuxhaven is carried out exclusively by the professional fire brigade. The rescue service staff consists of fire service officers who are qualified as emergency paramedics or paramedics. Transports to accommodate patients in accordance with the Mentally Ill Act are accompanied by law enforcement officers.
The Cuxhaven fire brigade is a recognized rescue service training center (teaching rescue station).
A group of "Organizational Rescue Service Leaders" (OrgL) is available to adequately counter a possible mass casualty of injured / sick people (MANV).
Ship firefighting
The Cuxhaven fire brigade also ensures fire protection on the world's busiest waterway, the Lower Elbe . Until 1991, this took place outside the actual responsibility of the Cuxhaven fire department. In July 1991, however, an administrative agreement was made that regulates the responsibilities for such operations. Since then, the state has financed extensive equipment for fire fighting at sea , for technical assistance and for the care of the injured at sea as well as in the state's own port of Cuxhaven. The devices can be loaded onto transport ships in lattice boxes or transported by helicopter. The professional firefighters have completed several special training courses for these tasks.
Mud rescue
In the area of mud rescue , the Cuxhaven fire brigade often works closely with the German Life Rescue Society ( DLRG ), the German Society for Rescue of Shipwrecked People ( DGzRS ), the Nordseeheilbad Cuxhaven GmbH, the SAR helicopters and the water police . The professional fire brigade and the Cuxhaven-Duhnen volunteer fire brigade each maintain a lifeboat for pure water rescue operations.
Height rescue
The height rescue group of the professional fire brigade Cuxhaven was founded in 2005 and currently consists of 20 height rescuers, including 2 trainers. This special unit of the fire brigade serves on the one hand to train the rest of the fire brigade in the area of fall protection and on the other hand manages various rescue and relief measures in such exposed locations that they cannot be managed with conventional means (e.g. turntable ladders).
Control center
The control center of the Cuxhaven fire brigade coordinates all operations of the fire brigade and the rescue service in the city of Cuxhaven. For this purpose, it is equipped with modern computer technology that supports the dispatcher from accepting the emergency call to accounting and statistics. In addition to the fire brigade, disaster control , THW , DLRG and the Cuxhaven Red Cross are also alerted; the DLRG and the Cuxhaven Red Cross each provide a rapid response group .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b professional fire brigade Cuxhaven. Working Group of Heads of Professional Fire Brigades in the Federal Republic of Germany (AGBF), accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Fire alarm in the lock ( memento of May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), March 8, 2008, Kiel Canal Information: Brunsbüttel - major alarm for the Brunsbüttel and Cuxhaven fire brigades. In the Brunsbüttel lock, clouds of smoke penetrated from the hold of the freighter “PATRICIA S”. ( Memento from April 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ “Pallas” investigation committee ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 25, 1999, Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament
- ^ Bylaws of the Cuxhaven Voluntary Fire Brigade (PDF; 41 kB), November 3, 2005, http://www.cuxhaven.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 41.9 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 37.1" E
