Duisburg fire brigade

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Duisburg fire brigade
Coat of arms of Duisburg Office of the City of Duisburg
Administration building of the Duisburg fire brigade
Administration building of the Duisburg fire brigade
Professional fire brigade
Founding year: 1904
Locations: 7 FW , 12 RD , 5 NEF , 1 RTH
Employee: ~ 560 (as of: 12/2019)
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year: 1859
Departments: 26th
Active members: ~ 620 (status: 12/2019)
Youth fire brigade
Groups: 9
Members: ~ 150 (as of 2011)
www.feuerwehr-duisburg.de

The Duisburg fire brigade , consisting of the professional fire brigade founded in 1904 and the volunteer fire brigade founded in 1859 , to which the youth fire brigade is affiliated, is the municipal office responsible for fire and disaster protection, as well as the rescue service in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Duisburg . In order to fulfill their tasks, the 1,100 full-time and voluntary fire brigade members have 220 vehicles and trailers at their disposal, which are distributed among six fire and rescue stations, a harbor watch, six rescue stations, a rescue helicopter station and 26 local groups of the volunteer fire brigade. The emergency services have to perform up to 66,000 missions every year. The Duisburg fire brigade became known for its vehicle developments from the 1960s onwards, when it played a decisive role in the development of the emergency fire fighting group vehicles and swap bodies .

history

19th century to 1945

Before the fire brigade was founded in Duisburg, fires were traditionally extinguished with buckets and later also with manual pressure syringes , which in most cases prevented the flames from spreading; Successful extinguishing was only recorded in a few cases. The population was involved in the extinguishing work. Every household had to keep a fire bucket and a lantern ready, in the event of a fire the men would fight the fire. Later the city provided fire engines, ladders and hooks. In some places, guilds came together to help the population in emergencies, fires or floods, using the equipment provided. At this time, fire protection regulations regulated preventive fire protection and extinguishing work.

Due to the onset of industrialization in the Ruhr area in the 19th century, the city grew especially within the city walls. The resulting increase in population and new buildings made fire protection more and more difficult. As a result, members of the Duisburg gymnastics clubs from 1848 , inspired by southern German gymnastics clubs, demanded that a fire brigade be established for the first time in 1853, which was appropriately equipped and trained. Six years later the first fire brigade was founded in Duisburg, which received a suction fire sprayer a year after it was founded, but there was still a lack of other necessary equipment. For this reason, the population was divided about the fire brigade.

Five years after the Turner Fire Department was founded, the first municipal volunteer fire department was founded. In the districts of Duissern (1865), Neudorf and Hochfeld (both 1869), and Neuenkamp (1872), volunteer fire brigades also developed. They mostly consisted of craftsmen who wanted to ensure fire protection on site. In 1876 the city fire brigade was restructured because the installation of water pipes required new fire fighting regulations. The companies in the city center became the rescue corps, the Duissern and Neudorf companies became syringe trains. In 1908 the name was changed to fire brigade.

The fire brigades were now well equipped and organized for the time. Due to the dynamic development of the city outside the city walls, the work area expanded and the number of volunteer fire services increased. In 1902 it went out on 232 missions, a year later around 300 alarms were counted. The call for a professional fire brigade from the population grew louder and louder. A big fire in 1903 that killed two children was the decisive factor. In the same year it was decided to found the professional fire brigade and build a new fire station. The eight volunteer fire brigades until then should be retained and support the professional fire brigade in their operations. On April 9, 1904, the first 14 men of the new guard took up their duties on Friedenstrasse. Your fire-fighting train was still pulled by horses, but the alarm system was improved by connecting the alarm bells of the volunteer fire brigade with those of the professional fire brigade. Two years later, the professional fire brigade's field of activity expanded when it took on the task of transporting the ambulance .

Fire in the inner harbor around 1930

During the First World War , many members of the fire brigade were in military service who had died in the war or no longer joined the fire brigade. The devaluation of money made it difficult to buy equipment, so that the most necessary equipment was built by oneself. The voluntary fire brigade in particular suffered from the aftermath of the war, as initially only a few were enthusiastic about service in the fire brigade. The city of Duisburg grew through the incorporation of Ruhrort (1905), Hamborn and what is now the south of Duisburg (1929) and thus the area of ​​operation for the fire brigade. As a consequence, the professional fire brigade was strengthened more and more and fire station 2 was put into operation in Ruhrort in 1920, later the station of the volunteer fire brigade Hamborn was manned continuously. In 1929 the professional fire brigade already consisted of 84 employees, the voluntary fire brigade of 30 fire engines and companies.

With the law on fire extinguishing from December 1933, the fire brigade was reorganized and the gymnastics department was detached from the gymnastics club. After the National Socialists came to power , the military leaders were no longer elected, but determined by the authorities, and the fire brigade was subordinated to the police . The outbreak of World War II ensured that many firefighters were called up for military service. Due to the fact that Duisburg was a primary target for air strikes because of its arms industry, the remaining firefighters were called to numerous missions. Supported by boys from the Hitler Youth , the emergency services were only equipped with handcarts and pumps. In doing so, they often risked their lives when they moved out during the air raids. The heaviest air raid took place on October 14, 1944. This caused the complete collapse of the gas supply and the almost complete collapse of the electricity and water supplies.

After the Second World War

After the Second World War, both the professional and voluntary fire brigade were reorganized by the mayor on June 11, 1945 in order to build up a powerful fire brigade. Among other things, the gymnastics department was merged with the city's volunteer fire department after 86 years. At first, the reconstruction was slow because most of the vehicles and fire stations were destroyed. The fire brigade sometimes used old military vehicles to transport equipment and crew. But with the economic miracle , rapid development began in the Duisburg fire brigade. Due to the dynamic development of industry and the associated population growth, the requirements and tasks increased, including technical assistance and environmental protection became important tasks of the fire brigade. One was to develop withstand in 1953. FM - radio intercom purchased, also presented the fire department in the early 1960s, a fireboat, a boom truck, its first ambulance in service. In addition, new locations were set up in the Duisburg inland port with the fire station south (1964) and the harbor guard (1969) . With the municipal reorganization in 1975, the urban area expanded to include the cities of Walsum, Homberg and Rheinhausen, as well as the places Rumeln-Kaldenhausen and Baerl. The constantly manned guards in the former towns became new professional fire stations, and several fire fighting groups from the volunteer fire brigade were merged. In the same year, the air rescue center in Duisburg opened, where the rescue helicopter Christoph 9 was stationed.

The new requirements ensured that the new fleet was adapted to them. With the standardized fire fighting vehicles, the Duisburg fire brigade no longer saw itself in a position to provide effective assistance, and as early as 1962 began to develop a combined vehicle for fire fighting and technical assistance, with which it did pioneering work in this area. At the end of 1969, three fire fighting vehicles (LF-HI) could be put into service, which were supplemented by two large tank fire engines that could hold up to 8,000 liters of water. The additional equipment required increased the acquisition costs. With the help of an interchangeable loader system , the replenishment of resources should be ensured in the event of an emergency, thereby saving the chassis for special vehicles. As the second municipality after Mannheim , the Duisburg fire brigade hired its first sales tipper in 1970, followed by the first hooklift in 1974. Due to the economic crisis , the city of Duisburg was forced to save. As a result, the swap body system was further processed, so that the Duisburg fire brigade owned eleven swap bodies in the mid-1980s, including three all-wheel-drive four-axle MAN chassis, and around 40 containers. At the same time, the fire engines of the professional fire brigade were equipped with uniform fire engines on three-axle chassis. The vehicles designated as the tank fire engine 5000 help (TLF 5000 H), which were the successors of the LF-HI, had extensive equipment for fire fighting and technical assistance as well as a 5000 liter water tank. The large amount of water was chosen because the crew of the fire engines was reduced from one group to one relay, which should have sufficient water available in the first phase of a fire fighting attack without having to establish a water connection to the vehicle. In addition, two major fires in the port ensured that such a large tank capacity was selected. In 1984 the Duisburg professional fire brigade put the further development of the TLF 5000 H into service. The vehicle had an additional front axle to relieve the rear axles. But because of its length of almost 10 meters, only one new TLF was put into service. At the end of the 1980s, the BF Duisburg also put three fire fighting vehicles on MAN chassis of the German armed forces into service. The vehicles were purchased primarily for rapid deployment on the motorway and to support the fire trucks.

In 1995 the new main fire station was inaugurated in the Duissern district, and two years later the new port station in Ruhrort was inaugurated. In 2002, the fire brigade switched the rescue service to the new rendezvous system . Since then, instead of an ambulance, ambulance vehicles and ambulances have been alerted at the same time at different locations, making the emergency doctor more flexible. Both meet on site.

Due to its high debts , the city of Duisburg has been forced to save for years. Since April 1, 2004, emergency organizations have been alerted in addition to the professional fire brigade. The city had to set up four additional ambulances and was not allowed to hire new staff due to a budget lock, which is why the aid organizations were included in the fire service's rescue service. The necessary capital was lacking to replace the two mold- infested guards 2 (Laar) and 5 (Homberg). Therefore, the two guards were merged to form the new fire and rescue station 5 in Homberg. In addition, the building erected in 2007 at the Rheinpreussenhafen, which was privately financed and rented by the city, accommodated two fire fighting groups from the volunteer fire department and the fire department school. The fire brigade is also relying on a new vehicle concept. For cost reasons, the three-axle fire fighting vehicles are to be replaced by standardized fire fighting group vehicles in the future.

Map of the guards of the professional fire brigade and volunteer fire brigade, plant fire brigade and rescue guards in Duisburg

Structure of the fire brigade

Professional fire brigade

The professional fire brigade of the city of Duisburg is part of Office 37, the fire brigade and civil protection office and has around 600 employees, of which around 540 are on duty. In addition to the traditional tasks (fire fighting, ambulance transport, medical emergency rescue, technical assistance and environmental protection), checking the preventive fire and hazard protection (this includes statements in building inspection procedures, advice, security guards at events and fire and inspections) is part of their activities.

In order to fulfill these tasks, the professional fire brigade has six fire and rescue stations available throughout the city. All guards have at least one fire engine, which consists of an emergency fire engine (HLF 28/40), a turntable ladder with basket 23-12 (DLK 23-12), a tank fire engine (TLF 20/24) which is internally referred to as a pre- fire engine (VLF) and an ambulance (RTW), with a strength of twelve fire brigade members (Fm / SB). There are also special vehicles at some guards. In the event of an emergency, the guards complement each other in accordance with the neighborhood principle. The head of operations is under the direction of the officer from the operations service (BvE), who joins the rendezvous principle if necessary; they are stationed at guards 1 (BvE South) and 3 (BvE North). If there are major damage incidents, additional fire fighting units and special vehicles are added.

In addition, the professional fire brigade has a harbor fire station at which a pre-extinguishing vehicle and a fire boat are stationed, four rescue guards / emergency doctor stations and a helicopter station at the professional association accident clinic, where the rescue helicopter Christoph 9 is located.

There is an independent staff council for the professional fire brigade , which works according to the regulations of the LPVG NRW and was newly elected in 2016. It has its own youth and trainee representative and a representative for severely disabled employees . The staff council of the fire brigade and civil protection office has its seat in FRW 1.

Locations

The guard building of fire and rescue station 1 at Wintgensstraße 111
The fire and rescue station 7 at Düsseldorfer Landstr. 92
The fireboat "Duisburg 2" in front of the harbor guard (building top right)

The fire and rescue station 1 , at the same time the main fire station and largest station in the city, is located on Wintgensstrasse in the Duissern district , northeast of the city center. It was built in 1995 to replace the old fire station 1 in Hochfeld . In addition to the fire engine and the rescue service vehicles, the control vehicle of the officer from the southern emergency service and some special vehicles such as the crane, the command vehicle 2 , the respiratory protection equipment vehicle or the water rescue equipment vehicle , as well as a large number of the swap-loader vehicles with some roll-off containers / containers are stationed at the guard . In addition, the workshop, administration and control center are housed in the station. The paramedic school is located on the upper floor of the administration building of fire and rescue station 1, where paramedics and paramedics as well as emergency paramedics are trained.

The fire and rescue station 3 is located in Hamborn . The guard is the seat of the Operations Directorate North, which is why, in addition to the fire engine, a command vehicle 1 for the officers from the operations service is housed in Hamborn. In addition, there are four ambulances stationed in Hamborn, one of which is manned by an aid organization, a passenger car , a swap truck and five roll-off containers. The now over 40-year-old guard is to be renovated in the coming years.

The northernmost station in Duisburg is the fire and rescue station 4 in Walsum , which was the permanently manned station of the Walsum volunteer fire brigade until the municipal reorganization in 1975 . The security team specializes in environmental protection and, since the closure of Fire and Rescue Station 2, in tram accidents , for which the unit is equipped with three swap-loaders and six roll-off containers. In addition, there is the fire-fighting train, a passenger car, three ambulances, an ambulance and a tracking device.

In March 2007 the fire and rescue station 5 in the Homberger Rheinpreussenhafen was moved into. The guard, rented by the city of Duisburg, was built by a private company. It replaced two mold-infested buildings in Laar (formerly fire and rescue station 2) and Homberg (the former fire and rescue station 5). The employees of the two former guards were housed in containers until the building was completed. Around 80 emergency services work in Guard 5 today. In addition to the fire engine and three ambulances, other special vehicles are stationed here, such as the chemical train and roll-off container of the 22 t system. The fire brigade school also uses classrooms and training rooms in the guard, the fire supervisor candidates (trainees for the intermediate fire service) also complete their guard internship in Homberg. In addition to the professional fire brigade, the Homberg / Hochheide volunteer fire brigade is housed in the building.

The fire and rescue station 6 in Rheinhausen on the left bank of the Rhine is also one of the guards that became a location of the Duisburg professional fire brigade in 1975 through the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia. The guard has been a permanently manned fire station since 1957, after the number of operations in the former town of Rheinhausen increased after the urban expansion. The current fleet consists of the fire engine, a passenger car, two ambulances, a crew transport vehicle and an infection ambulance . In addition, the fire brigade 610 (Hochemmerich) of the volunteer fire brigade is at this station.

Fire and Rescue Station 7 , the southernmost in the urban area, is located in the Buchholz district , where a fire engine, two ambulances, an ambulance and a passenger car are stationed. The fire and rescue station 7 has the largest operational area of ​​all professional fire brigades in Duisburg, so it cannot reach every point in the guard district. At these points, the volunteer fire brigade is also alerted during the initial deployment .

Ruhrort is the location of the harbor guard, the fire station 8 , which is responsible for the largest inland port in Europe. This location replaced the fireboat station at the mouth of the Ruhr at the end of the 1990s . A total of four comrades belong to the security team today, who have two fire boats and a rescue vehicle 28/40 at their disposal. In the event of an emergency, the men move out with the fire boat 1 or the emergency fire engine manned by three men. In this case, a fourth man remains at the location and, if necessary, manned the fireboat while the vehicle crew is relieved and drives back to the resident.

Other locations are the six rescue stations in Hochfeld (2), Fahrn , Rheinhausen and Wanheimerort , where the four emergency medical vehicles (NEF) are stationed. The rescue helicopter Christoph 9 is stationed at the professional association accident clinic in Buchholz .

Ice hockey team

The Fire Devils Duisburg form the ice hockey team of the Duisburg professional fire brigade. The team has been organizing charity games since 1996, where up to 2007 more than € 50,000 was raised for charitable purposes, such as for children's clinics, the survivors of the firefighters who died in the terrorist attacks in New York or the Erich Kühnhackl Foundation . So far, the Fire Devils have competed against teams from Radio Duisburg , the New York Fire Department and the Duisburger Füchse , as well as against police teams and celebrity teams . At the last charity game so far, when the Fire Devils competed against a team from Füchse Duisburg in March 2008, the proceeds amounted to over € 4,000. 600 spectators saw the Füchse's 14: 3 success. In addition, the Duisburg Firedevils are 1st champions of the 2013 newly founded FEL (Fire Brigade Ice Hockey League). They were unbeaten against teams from Solingen, Cologne, Krefeld and Iserlohn champions. The team also became champions in 2014 and 2015.

On April 2, 2016, the west master of the FEL West, the Firedevils Duisburg, met the north master of the FEL Nord, the team of the Bremerhaven professional fire brigade, the Fischtown Firefighter. The Firedevils Duisburg could decide the game for themselves.

Volunteer firefighter

The Baerler fire station before the renovation
The Mündelheim fire station
A modern HLF 20/16 from FF Duisburg
The LF 16-TS of the fire engine 510
Members of the volunteer fire department during an exercise
American pattern in Baerl
The FF accompanies the St. Martin trains

The Duisburg fire brigade began with the establishment of the Duisburg Voluntary Fire Brigade in 1859. With this founding year, FF Duisburg is considered the oldest volunteer fire brigade in North Rhine-Westphalia . The volunteer fire brigade grew steadily through numerous founding of individual fire departments in the city districts and local reorganizations and reached its present level in 1975. Today (as of 2009) the volunteer fire brigade consists of around 514 men and women who have over 50 emergency vehicles and trailers available in 20 fire stations, five of which are on the premises of a professional fire brigade.

The general tasks of the volunteer fire brigade are to support the professional fire brigade in major incidents . This includes major fires or storms , as well as the manning of fire and rescue stations if the professional fire brigade is on duty for a longer period in order to meet the deadlines if necessary . In addition, security guards are carried out, for example in the theater, during fireworks or during the St. Martin's procession .

In the places on the outskirts of the city, the volunteer fire brigade is alerted during the initial deployment . These units include the fire fighting train 510 Baerl, which hosted the German championships in the American model from 2002 to 2007 , and the fire fighting train 670 Rumeln-Kaldenhausen, as well as the fire fighting train 750 Mündelheim, which is the only independently operating fire fighting group in Duisburg. The fire brigades are always alerted and accordingly have extensive equipment, such as fire trucks with emergency kits . In addition to these units, two other volunteer fire brigades would have to go into action for the first time, Bissingheim and Rahm, which is currently not possible. This is explained by the fact that the majority of the members of the fire fighting groups work outside and therefore a supply cannot be guaranteed.

Since 1994 the members of the volunteer fire brigade have only been alerted via radio receivers , colloquially known as beepers, until then they were alerted by sirens .

The volunteer fire brigade still includes some youth fire brigades and honorary departments , to which active people switch at the latest when they turn 67. The honorary departments currently have around 130 members.

units

Overview table

Fire engine Delete group District founding Emergency vehicles
SE 040 Special unit

Administrative support department

2019
LZ 110 101 Hochfeld / Neuenkamp 1869 a LF 20-KatS , an HLF 20/16 , GW-Dekon-P and an MTF
102 Neudorf 1859
SE 120 Telecommunications Service Special Unit 2001 two ELW 1 , AB -ELKO (1)
LZ 210 201 Laar 1866 one LF 16 and one MTF
202 Meiderich 1896 one HLF 20/16 , one LF 20-KatS , one MTF and one WLF 32 with AB-HFS (2)
LZ 310 301 Hamborn / Neumühl 1898 one LF 20-KatS and one MTF
302 Marxloh 1900 one LF 20-KatS , one HLF 20/16 and one FwA-LIMA
LZ 410 401 Aldenrade 1905 a HLF 20/16 , a SW 2000 , a WLF 26 with AB stay, AB trough and AB platform, a wheel loader and a forklift
402 Vierlinden 1942 one LF 20-KatS and one MTF
LZ 510 Baerl 1907 an HLF 20/16 , a VLF , a LF 20-KatS , an MTF and an emergency power generator
LZ 530 504 Hochheide 1902 a HLF 20/16 , a LF 20-KatS , a GW-Dekon-P , a DLK 23/12 and a WLF 26 with AB -Dekon, as well as an MTF
503 Homberg 1869
LZ 610 Rheinhausen / Hochemmerich 1905 two HLF 20 , one LF 20-KatS , one LF 16-TS , one SW 2000 Tr. , one MTF and two GW - staging room
603 Oestrum 1921
LZ 650 605 Friemersheim 1903 an HLF 20/16 , an LF 20-KatS , an MTF , ABC-ErkKW , a GW kitchen
606 Friemersheim
LZ 670 Rumbling 1923 an HLF 20/16 , an LF 20-KatS and an MTF
LZ 670 Kaldenhausen 1920
LZ 710 701 Buchholz 1907 an HLF 20/16 , a TLF 3000 , a forklift and an MTF
LZ 710 702 Bissingheim / Wedau 1921 an LF 20-KatS
LZ 730 703 Great tree / cream 1907 an HLF 20/16 , an LF 20-KatS and an MTF
LZ 730 704 Huckingen 1896
LZ 750 705 Mündelheim 1906 an HLF 20/16 , an LF 20-KatS and an MTF

(1) Roll-off container operations management and communication (AB-ELKO) (2) Roll-off container Holland Fire System (AB-HFS) (5) Catering equipment trolley (GW-V)

Special forces

Some fire engines also form special units that are alerted in the event of larger deployments. The fire fighting train 610 (Rheinhausen) is responsible for setting up a staging area for large-scale operations and for providing regional assistance. In addition, the fire fighting train 610 (Rheinhausen) also forms the special unit water supply. The fire fighting train 650 (Friemersheim) provides the special task force as well as the ABC exploration , the members of the fire fighting train 530 (Homberg / Hochheide) specialize in decontamination . The telecommunications service founded in 2001 (special unit -120 telecommunications service) is made up of members of all fire engines of the volunteer fire brigade and manned the command vehicle 2 and a swap-loader vehicle with the AB-Einsatzleitung (called AB-ELKO - Operations Management and Communication in Duisburg ).

The special unit water pumping belongs to the fire fighting train 210 (Laar / Meiderich), which looks after the high-performance pump Holland Fire System (HFS). The special container on which the pump is built, as well as its carrier vehicle, are housed at fire and rescue station 1. The pump, which has a capacity of 5000 liters per minute at 5 bar, is used to pump large quantities of water. The roll-off container has over 2000 meters of F-pressure hoses (150 millimeters in diameter) so that large quantities of extinguishing water can be transported . The special unit is not only deployed in Duisburg, but is also used to provide regional aid, such as in 2005 in the case of a fire in the Krefeld harbor or in 2006 in a hardware store fire in Oberhausen .

Youth fire brigade

For years, the Duisburg fire brigade has been trying to attract and promote young talent through the youth fire brigade (JF). The first unit was launched in Rheinhausen in 1965. Today the youth fire brigade consists of nine groups throughout the city; City center, Hamborn, Walsum, Homberg-Baerl-Ruhrort, Rheinhausen, Bergheim, Friemersheim, Rumeln and Huckingen, a tenth group is being planned in Bissingheim. The city youth fire brigade association has a total of around 150 members, so the waiting list for applicants is even longer. Any young person between the ages of 12 and 18 can apply.

Other tasks

Ambulance service

Ambulance vehicle
Ambulance
The rescue helicopter "Christoph 9"

The ambulance service of the city of Duisburg is carried out by the fire brigade as the core carrier and the aid organizations Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , Deutsches Red Cross , the Malteser Hilfsdienst and the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe . In addition, there are a few private companies that are involved in ambulance transport.

Until April 2004, the fire brigade was almost exclusively responsible for the rescue service, only the Maltese emergency service was involved in the ambulance transport. After the prescribed rescue service requirement plan provided for 14 ambulances instead of the previous 10, aid organizations were integrated into the rescue service, as the city is not allowed to hire any further employees due to the financial situation. At the same time, the fire brigade almost exclusively withdrew from ambulance for reasons of economy; today only three ambulances are operated by the professional fire brigade. At the same time, the city of Duisburg is still responsible for municipal ambulance services and arranges around 21,000 ambulance services annually. A total of around 10 ambulances (KTW) are provided daily by the fire brigade, but also by the Malteser Aid Service, the Johanniter Accident Aid, the German Red Cross and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund. A total of twelve rescue stations are distributed across the city, six of which are located on the premises of a fire and rescue station. In addition, there are six other ambulance stations in Duisburg, four of which are advertised as emergency medical stations.

  • Ambulance Station 11 Bethesda Hospital; an ambulance vehicle
  • Ambulance station 12 Hochfeld; an ambulance
  • Ambulance station 31 Evangelical Hospital Duisburg-Nord, an emergency doctor vehicle
  • Ambulance station 61 Johanniter Hospital; an ambulance vehicle
  • Ambulance station 72 Duisburg Clinic; an ambulance vehicle, an ambulance and a baby ambulance
  • Ambulance station 73 Accident Clinic ; a rescue helicopter

In addition to these rescue stations, there are two rescue stations manned by aid organizations, the DRK rescue station 62 in the Rumeln district and the rescue station 71 of the Malteser emergency service in Duisburg-Huckingen.

The rescue helicopter Christoph 9 is stationed at the professional association accident clinic in Duisburg-Buchholz . The crew, consisting of a pilot from the Federal Police , an emergency doctor from the on-site hospital and a paramedic from the Duisburg professional fire brigade, fly their missions within a 50 km radius of the air rescue center, an average of 1200 missions per year. After 33 years and almost 29,500 uses, an EC 135 T2i replaced the old BO 105 machine in February 2008 .

In addition to the rescue helicopter, the fire brigade has three other special vehicles, a baby ambulance , an infection ambulance and a special ambulance that can be used for intensive care transports as well as for the transport of obese patients.

Water and altitude rescue

Water rescue is one of the tasks of the Duisburg fire brigade . For the application available to the fire department divers a trolley water rescue and a boat on the fire and rescue station 1 is available. Furthermore, there is a multi-purpose boat and a fire-fighting boat in the harbor, at fire station 8. When in action, the divers can fall back on the rescue helicopter Christoph 9 . The rescue helicopter is manned by three divers, one diving leader, one safety diver and one rescue diver . You will be dropped off near the scene of the incident because jumping out of the helicopter over the scene is too dangerous. This is because the depth of numerous bodies of water cannot be estimated from the rescue helicopter.

The Duisburg Heights Rescue Unit consisted of 14 fire fighters before the unit had to be disbanded in 2006 for reasons of cost, among other things. If height rescuers are needed today, the Duisburg fire brigade falls back on the height rescue group of the Thyssen Krupp Steel plant fire brigade, which was responsible for the further training of urban height rescuers until 2006.

Disaster and civil protection

In addition to the Duisburg fire brigade, as the lowest disaster control authority responsible for disaster control in Duisburg, the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), the German Red Cross (DRK), the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH), the Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD), the German Lifesaving Society (DLRG) and the Technical Relief Organization (THW) are involved in disaster control. The emergency units of the disaster control include the unit mass casualty (MANV) or the telecommunications service. In the event of an emergency, they not only come to the city, they are also deployed in the Düsseldorf administrative district.

The fire brigade in Duisburg is also responsible for civil protection . This includes the creation of disaster, special protection and evacuation plans. Furthermore, preventive measures for a nuclear accident or for the case of defense are worked out, which are special operational plans, as well as instructions for protection, evacuation and care for the residents. In the city center, at the König-Heinrich-Platz subway station , there is a civil bunker for 4,500 people, which offers protection from nuclear, biological and chemical hazards . In addition, the city of Duisburg has installed a new siren warning system (the federal government had the old sirens removed in the mid-1990s) to warn the population using acoustic signals.

The crisis team of the city of Duisburg, which includes up to 40 people, includes members of the city administration, the fire brigade and aid organizations. In the event of an emergency, the staff advises on how to proceed in the event of disasters, such as major industrial losses, storms or Rhine floods. Since 2006, the crisis team has been alerted via a new alerting, notification and information system that can call up to 30 employees at the same time. Since 2016, the city of Duisburg has had access to the "Nina" app, which the city can use to warn the population about dangers. Furthermore, in the event of damage, the fire brigade staffs the staff information line.

In order to be able to request additional forces in the event of a major damage, the crisis team has been working with the Bundeswehr district liaison command in Duisburg since January 2007 . In an emergency, twelve volunteer reservists work in three shifts and can request support from the armed forces that support the fire brigade and other organizations. In the event of a disaster, the 21st Panzer Brigade from Augustdorf near Detmold would be called in . The Duisburg was the first district liaison command that could begin its work.

Technology and vehicles

The Duisburg fire brigade has a total of 220 vehicles, trailers and roll-off containers. Standardized vehicles are currently a rarity in the professional fire service. Due to the financial situation of the city of Duisburg, the fire brigade was forced to look for ways to save money as early as the 1960s. With the development of the emergency fire-fighting vehicle , an attempt was made to create a combined vehicle consisting of a fire fighting group vehicle , tank fire engine and rescue vehicle in order to save two chassis and as many functions as possible on the vehicle. The first vehicles of this type were put into service in 1969, and today the Duisburg professional fire service is now in its 5th generation. With the help of the swap body system, as many chassis and repair costs as possible should be saved. At that time, the Duisburg fire brigade broke new ground with a few other fire brigades and, among other things, ensured that the two vehicle types were later included in the standardization with their experience.

Most of the vehicles are assigned to the professional fire brigade; these are mainly rescue and special vehicles. Then there are the vehicles used in the fire engine. The fire-fighting train is the fire-fighting unit that is stationed at every fire and rescue station. The fire fighting train, to which a total of 12 firefighters belong, consists of

In addition to supporting the fire extinguishing unit, fire trucks are used for small-scale operations and to protect emergency areas, especially on motorways and expressways.

  • HLF 28/40

  • TLF 20/24

  • DLK 23-12

  • Ambulance

The gallery shows the fire brigade of fire and rescue station 7 in August 2008.

The Duisburg fire brigade has various command vehicles. The officers from the emergency service move out with a command vehicle 1 , the employees of the management service on duty use command vehicles . In addition, the Duisburg fire brigade has a control vehicle 2 and a roll-off container control and communication at its disposal, which are manned by members of the volunteer fire brigade in the event of an emergency.

In Duisburg, the replenishment of technical devices and special equipment is mainly carried out with the help of the swap body system. The Duisburg fire brigade was one of the first German fire brigades to deal with the development of the drop-off system and later that of the swap body system at the beginning of the 1970s. In Duisburg today, the system is divided into two categories, the 9-ton and the 22-ton system. In 2007 the fire brigade had 13 carrier vehicles and 46 roll-off containers.

Another part of the special equipment is housed on equipment trolleys, such as the respiratory protection equipment trolley , the measurement equipment trolley , the communication equipment trolley or the water rescue equipment trolley .

Another special vehicle is the fire brigade crane , which has a payload of 40 tons and is mainly used for technical assistance. In the event of an alarm, a swap-loader vehicle with a roll-off container crane is deployed in addition to the crane, in which there is additional equipment for a crane operation.

When testing a newly purchased drone , it fell on the roof of the Königsgalerie Duisburg in November 2019 and was badly damaged.

Fireboat

Fireboat Duisburg 1 on the Rhine

In order to ensure the fire protection in Duisburg's inland port and Duisburg's navigable waterways, the Duisburg professional fire brigade maintains two fire engines at the port watch in Ruhrort . The city's own fireboat, the Fireboat Duisburg 1 , was built in 1973 by the Mainz-Mombach shipyard. With a length of 31.25 meters, a width of 7.50 meters and a displacement of 150 tons, it is one of the largest fire fighting boats in Germany. The equipment includes three water cannons, two rapid attacks, three centrifugal pumps with an output of 6,000 liters per minute each, 10 submersible pumps with an output of 800 l - 6000 l / min and 20,000 liters of foam concentrate. In the stern there is a dinghy with a speed of 55 kilometers per hour, which is used for emergency medical transport by water or for rescuing people. As a special feature, the driver's cab can be extended to a height of 8.5 meters in order to have a better view in the event of a fire or to have a better throw range with the monitors that are attached to the wheelhouse. The older boat, the fire-fighting boat Duisburg 2 , built in 1963 , belongs to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , but it has already been scrapped. The boats are used in ship fires, accidents, leaks, environmental protection missions and when people jump from a bridge over the Rhine with suicidal intent. The boat is not only used in Duisburg; The Duisburg fire brigade supports the Krefeld , Wesel and Düsseldorf fire brigades as part of the regional aid .

Control center

The control center of the Duisburg fire brigade, called Florian Duisburg , is the central means of coordination in which all areas of responsibility for patient transport, ambulance and emergency medical services, as well as fire protection, technical assistance, disaster and major loss prevention come together. The control center is located in the administration building on the premises of fire and rescue station 1, where a total of sixteen emergency call lines 112 , eight times the number 19 222 for ambulance transport and once the number for the rescue helicopter, the latter being mainly used by other control centers . Another area of ​​responsibility of the control center is the telephone exchange for the entire fire brigade and civil protection office.

The operations control computer , in which all alarm key words are stored, suggests the respective operational resources that should be deployed after the dispatcher's input . In addition, the aid organizations are alerted by the control center. In addition, there are several thousand false alarms at the operations where no deployment is necessary, mostly malicious jokes. In order to cope with the many calls, a total of six dispatchers work around the clock in the control center, and one more is added to reinforce the day.

A-2 system

The A2 system was an integrated alarm and location system. It is no longer in service after the Modacom radio data service was discontinued and comparable devices were not purchased for price reasons. It was installed in all ambulance and command vehicles. When deployed, the control center was able to supply the respective vehicles with the most important data without using radio communication. In the vehicle, information such as type of operation, address and patient name appeared on a monitor. The system was particularly advantageous for patient transport , since the radio channel has to be used for a long time. With the A-2 system, the positions of the vehicles could also be found. With the help of the Global Positioning System (GPS), the locations of the vehicles could be displayed in the city map with an accuracy of approx. 50 meters and the closest vehicle to the scene of the incident could be called, which ensured that the vehicle could arrive quickly. The fire brigade is trying to set up a new, inexpensive system.

Calls

Most missions fall into the ambulance category
Rescue exercise after a traffic accident

Distribution of stakes

The Duisburg fire brigade is alerted to up to 66,000 operations every year. With over 60,000 alarms, emergency services account for the majority of the operations. Of these, more than 30,000 missions relate to emergency rescue and more than 20,000 to patient transport; the emergency doctor is called in for 8,500 missions. Fires and technical assistance account for a further 5,000 missions. In addition, there are around 500 false alarms, some of them due to technical defects in fire alarms or from callers who misjudge the situation or intentionally trigger a false alarm. For the most part, the Duisburg fire brigade has to extinguish small and medium-sized fires, 30 of the up to 2,300 fire operations falling into the category of major fires . The Duisburg fire brigade does more technical assistance than extinguishing fires, but the number of technical assistance is not as dominant as with other fire departments. This is due to the fact that the Duisburg fire brigade is neither responsible for rescuing animals nor for removing traces of oil.

Large-scale operations

Other fire departments

In Duisburg, with the steelworks of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg- Beeckerwerth and the Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann in Duisburg- Huckingen , as well as the chemical works Rütgers in Duisburg- Meiderich and VENATOR (formerly Huntsman Pigments and Additives) in the Homberg district, four industrial companies have their own fire brigades . The VENATOR works fire brigade caused a sensation with two small fire engines that were mounted on a Smart and a BMW C1 . With these vehicles, the fire brigade made it into the Guinness Book twice as the smallest fire engine .

literature

  • Jochen Maaß: Lots of technology, lots of water, few staff . In: Feuerwehrmagazin, issue 11/2003, pp. 20–31.
  • Stephan Bockting: Fire brigades in the Ruhr area . EFB-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-88776-114-6 .
  • Brochure Fire Brigade Duisburg - Emergencies attract us . 1994.

Web links

Commons : Feuerwehr Duisburg  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Extinguishing group 201 Voluntary Fire Brigade Duisburg: A look back into the history of the extinguishing group
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  4. ^ Moritz Ballensiefen; The Duisburg fire brigade is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a week of festivities - a rotary dial was used , Rheinische Post, local edition Duisburg, March 2004.
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  6. ↑ Ursula Sabel: Air raids on Duisburg , in the Lebendiges Museum Online portal (LeMO).
  7. ^ Exhibition of the City Museum 2004/2005: The Air War and the City 1940 to 1960 .
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  16. ^ A chocolate bar in the last third , Neue Ruhrzeitung, local edition Duisburg, April 1, 2008.
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  37. Jump up to the fire department , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, local edition Duisburg, September 1st
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