Gelsenkirchen fire department

Gelsenkirchen fire department
Office of the City of Gelsenkirchen
Fire and rescue station 1 of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade
Professional fire brigade
Founding year:	1904
Locations:	4 FuRW, 6 RW / NA
Employee:	358 (as of 2020)
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year:	1879
Departments:	9
Active members:	250 (as of 2020)
Youth fire brigade
Groups:	9
Members:	150 (as of 2020)
Gelsenkirchen fire department

The Gelsenkirchen fire brigade is a municipal authority of the city of Gelsenkirchen . It consists of a professional fire brigade founded in 1904 and nine volunteer fire brigades and, as Office 37, is subordinate to Board Division 2: Finance, Personnel and Organization, Fire Brigade. The highest employer of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade is the Lord Mayor of the city of Gelsenkirchen.

The fire brigade's vehicles move out over 100 times a day. The majority of the around 41,000 missions per year are carried out by the rescue service.

tasks

The mandatory tasks of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade include:

• fighting damaging fires
• the assistance in cases of accidents and public emergencies
• the performance of tasks in the field of civil defense
• the operation of a control center
• the education of the population in the context of fire protection education
• the performance of tasks in the context of administrative assistance for other authorities.

In addition to the compulsory tasks, the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade takes on a number of voluntary tasks. This includes, among other things, assistance under private law, which is carried out in exceptional cases and is usually subject to a charge (for example, door opening without an emergency or tree felling on private property). Traditional activities of the volunteer fire brigades, such as participation in carnival parades or fire fighting sports, also fall into this area.

Ambulance duties

The area of ​​responsibility of the rescue service is not actually a mandatory task of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. However, it is assigned to the fire brigade by the law on fire protection and assistance (§ 17) and by the Rescue Act NRW (§§ 6-9, 13). This results in the following tasks, among others:

• Participation in the rescue service.
• Cooperation with hospitals and emergency doctors.
• Organizational management in the area of ​​emergency services in the event of major incidents.
• Education and training of rescue service personnel.

Professional fire brigade

Fire and rescue station 2

organization

The Gelsenkirchen fire brigade (Section 37) is headed by a Chief Fire Director. There is a staff unit and five sub-divisions:

• Staff unit 37 - School for fire protection and rescue services
• Unit 37/1 - Administration, Finance
• Section 37/2 - Emergency Response and Rescue Service
• Unit 37/3 - Preventive fire and hazard protection
• Unit 37/4 - Technical Services
• Unit 37/5 - Mission planning, control, civil protection, research

staff

The Gelsenkirchen fire brigade has around 300 officers in the fire-fighting and rescue service. There are also 8 technical employees and 13 administrative employees (8 civil servants and 5 employees).

The staff employed in management and administration as well as in the technical operations service work on a daily basis. It is made up of officials from the middle, upper and higher service and employees of the professional fire brigade. Areas of activity include preventive fire protection or training at the fire brigade school. The regular weekly working hours are 38.5 and 41 hours.
The personnel deployed in the emergency service consists exclusively of civil servants. Shifts are used here. A shift starts at 7:30 a.m. and ends 24 hours later. This is followed by a break of at least 24 hours.

Staff strength and resources in the area of ​​fire protection and rescue service

function	Personnel deployment
Management service	1
Operations control service	1
Control center	6th
HLF 1 of guard 1	4th
HLF 2 of guard 1	4th
Turntable ladder of guard 1	2
HLF 1 of guard 2	4th
HLF 2 of guard 2	4th
Turntable ladder of guard 2	2
Swap body 1 of guard 2 / small emergency vehicle	2
Swap body 2 of guard 2	2
HLF 1 of the guard 4	4th
Turntable ladder of the guard 4	2
2 ambulance vehicles	2
6 ambulances	12
total	62

The daily workforce in fire protection is based on the specifications made in the fire protection requirement plan of 2011. This stipulates that, depending on the nature of the operation, ten fire service officers must have arrived at the scene of the incident within eight minutes. After another five minutes, an additional six officers must be available on site. In the case of major damaging events, the numbers increase accordingly.

In order to cope with the changing deployment scenarios, two command vehicles , five rescue group vehicles and three turntable ladders are manned every day . There are also two swap-loader vehicles that can bring various roll-off containers to the point of use. If necessary, the staff of one of the swap bodies manned a small emergency vehicle . In addition, there is the staff in the rescue service, which manned 2 emergency medical vehicles and six ambulances .

A daily target strength of 62 officers results from the specifications and requirements.

education

The officers and candidates of the Gelsenkirchen fire department are trained at the fire department and rescue service school of the Gelsenkirchen fire department. The prerequisite for employment for the intermediate fire service is at least a secondary school leaving certificate and completed vocational training in a profession suitable for fire service. In addition, there is the necessary physical and mental aptitude.

The recruitment test consists of a written part (German test, general knowledge, math) and a sporty-practical (sports test, manual skills) section. In addition, a personal interview and a medical examination must be completed.

The training itself lasts 18 months and includes fire-fighting and rescue training. In addition to attending the fire brigade school, there are several practical sections on watch and in the rescue service.

After successfully completing the training, at least 30 hours of rescue service and 16 hours of fire service training must be completed annually.

Ambulance service

Together with other aid organizations, the Gelsenkirchen professional fire brigade is responsible for rescue services in the area of ​​the city. For this purpose, six ambulances (RTW) and two emergency doctor vehicles (NEF) are manned by the fire brigade around the clock. The ambulances are manned by two fire fighters trained in the rescue service (paramedic, paramedic or paramedic), whereas with NEFs only the driver is provided by the professional fire brigade.

In order to cover peaks in operations and to relieve the professional fire brigade, a further six ambulances (with 96–168 hours per week) and 4 ambulances (20–159 hours per week) are manned by various private providers and aid organizations.

Diving group

The diving group of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade, which has existed since 1960, consists of around 35 fire brigade divers. These are distributed over the three watch departments of the fire and rescue station 2. During normal duty, the members of the diving group occupy an emergency fire extinguishing group vehicle (HLF) of the station and, in the event of a diving mission, switch to a special equipment vehicle for diving missions (GW Wasserrettung).

The main areas of application are above all the Rhine-Herne Canal and the port area there. As part of the administrative assistance, operations outside of Gelsenkirchen are also carried out, as not every fire brigade in the area has its own diving group. Above all, operations in the area of ​​rescuing people from water, searching for missing people and providing technical assistance and material recovery from water are carried out. Ice rescue is also a priority in winter .

Height rescue group

The height rescue group, which has existed since 1996, is the second special unit of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade . The 24 members of the unit are spread across the three guard departments of Fire and Rescue Station 1 and are also deployed on a jump basis. Since 2008, the group has had a special height rescue equipment cart.

The unit specializes in the rescue and recovery of people from great heights (chimneys, wind turbines, etc.), but also from depths (shafts, tunnels, etc.). In order to be able to help in medical emergencies as quickly and well as possible, all members are at least paramedics .

Locations

The Gelsenkirchen professional fire brigade has a total of four fire and rescue stations (location includes fire brigade and rescue service), four rescue stations (only rescue service) and three emergency doctor locations (location for emergency medical vehicles ). The fire and rescue station 2 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer , built in 2005, is used as the main station.

In the course of extensive investigations for the city's fire protection requirements plan , a gap in the coverage of the city area in the Hessler area was discovered in 2011 . In this area, the deadline could not be met to a sufficient extent. As a countermeasure, it was decided to build an additional fire and rescue station. Construction began in the spring of 2016, and in October 2017 the station started operations as the new fire and rescue station 3. In the course of this, the numbers of the guards were also changed.

guard	Location
Old town fire and rescue station (FRW1)	Wildenbruchstrasse 50, 45888 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Central fire and rescue station Buer (ZFRW2)	Seestrasse 3, 45894 Gelsenkirchen
Fire and rescue station Heßler (FRW3), emergency doctor location (NA 30)	An der Landwehr 5, 45894 Gelsenkirchen
Fire and rescue station Hassel (FRW 4)	Lüttinghofstrasse 90, 45896 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Beckhausen Ambulance Station (RW 21)	Kampstrasse 1, 45899 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Rescue station Resser-Mark (RW 22)	Im Emscherbruch 30, 45881 Gelsenkirchen
Ambulance station Schalke-Nord (RW 31)	Hochkampstrasse 68c, 45881 Gelsenkirchen
Ambulance station Buer-Mitte (RW 41, Sankt Marien-Hospital Buer)	Mühlenstrasse 5-9, 45881 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Emergency doctor location Ückendorf (NA 10, Marienhospital Gelsenkirchen)	Virchowstrasse 122, 45886 Gelsenkirchen
Emergency doctor location Buer (NA 20, Bergmannsheil Buer)	Schernerweg 4, 45894 Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Fire school

The Gelsenkirchen fire brigade maintains its own fire brigade school for training the professional fire brigade and volunteer fire brigade. This is officially recognized and located at Fire and Rescue Station 2.

Volunteer firefighter

Fire station of the Resse volunteer fire brigade

A total of nine volunteer fire brigades, known as fire engines, with around 250 members belong to the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. These either have their own fire stations in the city or share their location with the professional fire brigade. With the completion of the new construction of the professional fire brigade in the Heßler district, the newest fire fighting train in the city area was established.

The volunteer fire brigade in Gelsenkirchen 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. The respective fire engine also takes on specific special tasks.

Locations

Fire engine	Location	founding year	Special task	comment
Fire fighting train 11 old town	Wildenbruchstrasse 50, 45888 Gelsenkirchen, Germany	1879	Technical assistance	The fire engine is housed at fire and rescue station 1.
Fire fighting train 12 Buer-Mitte	Urban-von-Vorst-Weg 8, 45894 Gelsenkirchen	1879	Technical assistance and ABC measurement unit
Fire fighting train 13 Erle-Süd	Im Emscherbruch 32, 45891 Gelsenkirchen	1900	Information and communication (ICT)	The fire engine is housed at the Resser-Mark ambulance.
Fire fighting train 14 Horst	Kampstrasse 1, 45899 Gelsenkirchen, Germany	1892	decontamination	The fire engine is housed at the Beckhausen rescue station.
Fire fighting train 15 Scholven / Hassel	Lüttinghofstrasse 90, 45896 Gelsenkirchen, Germany	1924	Water supply	The fire fighting train is housed at fire and rescue station 4.
Fire brigade 16 Resse	Recklinghauser Strasse 110, 45892 Gelsenkirchen, Germany	1906	Construction of a treatment center
Fire fighting train 17 Erle-Nord	Seestrasse 3, 45894 Gelsenkirchen	1900	Logistics and replenishment	The fire engine is housed at fire and rescue station 2.
Fire fighting train 18 Ückendorf	Bergmannstrasse 201-203, 45886 Gelsenkirchen, Germany	1877	Food / supplies
Fire Brigade 19 Hessler	An der Landwehr 5, 45883 Gelsenkirchen	2017	Hose trolley	The fire engine is housed at fire and rescue station 3.

Youth fire brigade

Protective clothing for the youth fire brigade

The youth fire brigade Gelsenkirchen was set up to secure the next generation of volunteer fire services. This consists of eight individual youth fire brigades , in which around 150 girls and boys between the ages of 10 and 17 are members. The youth fire brigades are affiliated with the respective volunteer fire brigade, which also undertakes the training of the young people on a voluntary basis.

The training service usually takes place weekly. The focus here is primarily on fire-fighting training, but general youth work such as sporting competitions, tent camps and joint leisure activities are also carried out. In addition, great importance is attached to promoting teamwork and personal initiative.

“Here in the youth group we learn how a fire is made and how it is put out. But also the most important fire brigade nodes and first aid are part of the training content. [...] Nevertheless, free time is not neglected: film evenings, tent camps or vacation trips round off the program.

- Tatjana Jost, youth firefighter in Gelsenkirchen : Image brochure of the Gelsenkirchen fire department

Documentation - "Fire and Flame"

The Gelsenkirchen fire brigade was part of the successful WDR documentary " Fire and Flame " in 2017 . For the documentation, the security departments of Guard 2 were accompanied around the clock for five months by a camera team. Also came Bodycams used. A nine-part documentary was cut from around 1,000 hours of film material, showing the everyday life of professional firefighters.

After the documentary's market share was above the broadcaster's average and was particularly well received by young audiences, it was decided to continue. The second season was broadcast on WDR between January 21 and March 25, 2019.

After two successful seasons, the WDR now switched to the Bochum fire department . The new episodes have been broadcast since March 23, 2020 and in the media library since March 19, 2020.

Web links

• Website of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade
• Website of the Gelsenkirchen City Fire Brigade Association
• Gelsenkirchen Fire Brigade on Gelsenkirchen Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gelsenkirchen fire brigade: 2015 annual report . (PDF; 3.0 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, p. 8; accessed on August 1, 2017.
2. ^ Website of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on August 2, 2017.
3. ↑ Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. In: gelsenkirchen.de. Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Fire protection requirements plan of the city of Gelsenkirchen . (PDF; 21.7 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, September 13, 2011, pp. 68–70; accessed on August 1, 2017.
5. ↑ Fire protection requirements plan of the city of Gelsenkirchen . (PDF; 21.7 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, September 13, 2011, p. 72; accessed on August 1, 2017.
6. ^ Law on Fire Protection and Assistance . (PDF; 120 kB) idf.nrw.de, February 10, 1998, p. 9; accessed on August 1, 2017.
7. ↑ Law on the rescue service as well as emergency rescue and ambulance transport by entrepreneurs (Rescue Act NRW - RettG NRW). Status: July 21, 2017 ,recht.nrw.de, accessed on August 1, 2017.
8. ↑ Fire protection requirements plan of the city of Gelsenkirchen . (PDF; 21.7 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, September 13, 2011, p. 70; accessed on August 1, 2017.
9. ↑ Annual report 2015 . (PDF; 3.0 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, p. 7; accessed on August 1, 2017.
10. ↑ Fire protection requirements plan of the city of Gelsenkirchen . (PDF; 21.7 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, as of September 13, 2011, p. 97; Retrieved August 3, 2017.
11. ↑ Leaflet for applicants to the Gelsenkirchen professional fire brigade . (PDF; 16 KB), gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on August 2, 2017.
12. ↑ Information on the diving group of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on August 2, 2017.
13. ↑ Image brochure of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. (PDF; 6.89 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, pp. 21-22; accessed on August 2, 2017.
14. ↑ Information on the height rescue group of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on August 2, 2017.
15. ↑ Image brochure of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. (PDF; 6.89 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, p. 25; accessed on August 2, 2017.
16. ↑ Fire fighting and technical assistance. In: gelsenkirchen.de. Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Ambulance Service. In: gelsenkirchen.de. Retrieved February 11, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Information on the current construction projects of the Gelsenkirchen fire department. gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on August 2, 2017
19. ^ New fire and rescue station Heßler . City of Gelsenkirchen. November 2, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
20. ↑ Courses and seminars ( Memento from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.33 MB) gelsenkirchen.de; Retrieved August 3, 2017
21. ↑ Information on the volunteer fire brigade in Gelsenkirchen. sfv-ge.de, accessed on August 2, 2017.
22. ↑ Fire Brigade 19 was re-established . ( Memento from October 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) florian-gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on October 18, 2017
23. ↑ Information on the youth fire brigade in Gelsenkirchen. gelsenkirchen.de; accessed on August 2, 2017.
24. ↑ Image brochure of the Gelsenkirchen fire brigade. (PDF; 6.89 MB) gelsenkirchen.de, p. 31; accessed on August 2, 2017.
25. ↑ Fire & Flame - With firefighters on duty . (PDF; 4.1 MB) feuerundflamme.wdr.de; Retrieved August 3, 2017
26. ↑ "Overwhelming encouragement" - WDR continues the hero documentary "Fire & Flame" in Gelsenkirchen . derwesten, July 18, 2017; Retrieved August 3, 2017
27. ↑ 3rd season of “Fire & Flame” starts on March 23rd! In: feuerwehrmagazin.de. Feuerwehrmagazin, January 31, 2020, accessed on January 31, 2020 . 
28. ↑ Fire & Flame - Trailer Season 3 on YouTube }

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