Greifswald fire brigade

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Greifswald fire brigade
Greifswald coat of arms Office of the City of Greifswald
Fire truck 16/25 of the professional fire brigade
Fire truck 16/25 of the professional fire brigade
Professional fire brigade
Founding year: 1876
Locations: 1
Employee: 61
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year: 1875
Departments: 1
Active members: 107
Youth fire brigade
Groups: 1
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The Greifswald fire brigade is a municipal facility of the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald , which is responsible for fire protection in the Greifswald urban area. It is divided into a professional fire brigade and a volunteer fire brigade .

Professional fire brigade

As the 24th fire brigade in the German Empire, the professional fire brigade is one of the oldest in Germany; It was founded on April 1st, 1876. Since then, it has been ensuring fire protection in the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald on a 24-hour basis. It is a department in the Office for Citizens Service and Fire Protection.

tasks

The tasks of the professional fire brigade are diverse and go beyond the usual fire brigade tasks:

Fire station

The fire station is located on Wolgaster Straße between Greifswalder Mühlenvorstadt and the Ostseeviertel, so that around 80 percent of the city can be reached within eight minutes. It also houses a respiratory protection workshop, a hose workshop with hose washing, a vehicle maintenance area, and a general equipment workshop. The integrated control center and the volunteer fire brigade are also housed here.

Control center

In order to coordinate the operations of HKS Rettungsdienst Greifswald GmbH, which takes over the rescue service in Greifswald together with the German Red Cross (and formerly together with the professional fire brigade), an integrated control center was set up in the professional fire station. This control center is also responsible for alerting the Christoph 47 rescue helicopter.

Special task force SEE

Due to numerous fatal swimming accidents in the Greifswalder Bodden , the SEE special task force was founded in 2000. This is a joint aid project of the Greifswald professional fire brigade, the German Air Rescue and the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People . This concept provides that during a water rescue operation, rescue jumpers from the Greifswald professional fire brigade, the rescue helicopter Christoph 47, as well as boats of the DGzRS, water police and coast guard are alerted. The rescue jumper from the professional fire brigade is then picked up by the helicopter at the main fire station. As soon as the person to be searched for has been found, a life raft is dropped from the rescue helicopter before the rescue jumper himself jumps into the sea. Then he tries to bring the accident victim to the life raft, where they are both picked up by a boat and brought ashore. There the casualty is handed over to the regular rescue service.

vehicles

Use (April 2014)

The fleet of the professional fire brigade includes:

Volunteer firefighter

Old fire station Baderstrasse
Old fire station, vehicle exit

On August 18, 1875, the Greifswald volunteer fire brigade was founded as one of the first in the northeast of what is now the Federal Republic of Germany. Three years after it was founded, the fire station was built in Baderstraße, but it was rebuilt in 1904. On January 25, 2009 it was closed due to the acute danger of collapse and no longer released to the fire brigade until further notice.

In 1928 the volunteer fire brigade was motorized. Even during the Second World War , the volunteer fire brigade continued to exist, unlike in many other cities in which a women's or children's fire brigade was set up, although it had to cope with considerable personnel losses and was dissolved at the end of the war. It was not re-established until 15 years later, during the GDR era.

The Greifswald youth fire brigade was founded on February 1, 1994 .

On May 26, 2009 the volunteer fire brigade announced that it was no longer able to properly perform its duty due to insufficient technical equipment, especially in the building area. The strike ended on May 29, 2009 after the city administration began construction work on the transition site.

tasks

The primary task of the Greifswald volunteer fire brigade is to support the Greifswald professional fire brigade directly at the point of damage during larger operations or to ensure fire protection in Greifswald for longer operations until the professional fire brigade has finished its mission and is ready to deploy again. In addition, the Greifswald volunteer fire brigade takes on the task of the extended fire extinguishing train water, which can pump water over long distances, as is necessary in the case of forest fires or floods, for example. The dyke defense is the task of the volunteer fire department.

vehicles

The Greifswald Voluntary Fire Brigade has:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung  ( 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. , Article 'Firefighters resign in protest' from May 26, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  
  2. ↑ Press release of the Greifswald Voluntary Fire Brigade from May 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Press comment from webMoritz.de from May 27, 2009
  4. ↑ Press release of the Greifswald Voluntary Fire Brigade from May 29, 2009

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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 31.5 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 3.4 ″  E