Fire Department Cologne
| Fire Department Cologne | |
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 Badge of the Cologne professional fire brigade |
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| Professional fire brigade | |
| Founding year: | 1872 |
| Locations: | 11 emergency stations 5 rescue stations 1 Löschboot station 1 helicopter landing station |
| Employee: | 1433 |
| Vehicles: | 330 at BF and FF |
| Volunteer firefighter | |
| Departments: | 27 |
| Active members: | 847 |
| Youth fire brigade | |
| Groups: | 24 |
| Members: | 417 |
| www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/feuerwehr/ | |
The Cologne Fire Brigade is the community of professional fire brigade and volunteer fire brigade of the city of Cologne. The professional fire brigade was founded in 1872.
The Cologne professional fire brigade
Employees and equipment
The Cologne professional fire brigade has eleven fire and rescue stations, five other rescue stations, a fire boat and a rescue helicopter station at Cologne / Bonn Airport . There are also 27 fire stations of the volunteer fire brigade . A total of around 1100 employees work for the professional fire service.
In 2010 the Cologne fire brigade had around 70,000 missions. Of these, around 2000 were pure fire operations, the remaining rescue operations. During the fires, the fire brigade saved 290 people from life-threatening situations.
The fire brigade has around 330 vehicles in total. These include 36 fire fighting vehicles , 13 turntable ladders , eleven rescue and equipment vehicles as well as eight tank fire engines and 55 ambulances . In addition, the Cologne fire brigade has an extensive range of equipment, from defibrillators to a harness for lifting horses, the new acquisition of which is expressly mentioned in the annual report for 2010 after 25 years.
In addition to emergency operations, the tasks of the fire brigade also include hazard prevention , statements in the building inspection process, the fire prevention show and the security service at events.
In the course of the 2006 soccer world championship , the Cologne fire brigade developed several concepts for defense against particularly dangerous situations, which were adopted nationwide: “The federal government supports the highest level of the concept for emergency defense in NBC situations, the use of special forces, with the establishment and equipment from a total of seven Analytical Task Forces (ATF), which are particularly equipped for the analysis of hazards in A and C areas. ”In 2009, such an ATF was also set up in Cologne.
The control center of the Cologne fire brigade on Scheibenstrasse in Weidenpesch , which went into operation in 1978, is responsible for the Cologne city area. From here all operations of the professional, voluntary fire brigade and the aid organizations active in the rescue service are coordinated and managed by a total of around 65 employees.
In 2011, the first woman started her service with the Cologne professional fire brigade. In cooperation with the Sport University Cologne , a physical suitability test was developed for the selection process that takes into account the specific physical abilities of women. In 2012 the 21st Federal Congress of Women Firefighters took place at the Cologne professional fire brigade with 100 participants from all over Europe.
A historical teaching collection of the Cologne professional fire brigade is housed in the Lindenthal fire station .
Fire stations of the professional fire brigade
- Fire and rescue station 1: Agrippastraße ( Cologne city center ). Special tasks: water rescue, respiratory protection
- Fire and rescue station 2: Schillingsrotter Weg / Militärringstrasse ( Cologne-Marienburg ). Special task: technical assistance (set-up train), photo area
- Fire and rescue station 3: Gleueler Straße ( Cologne-Lindenthal )
- Fire and rescue station 4: Äußere Kanalstrasse / Venloer Strasse ( Cologne-Ehrenfeld ). Special tasks: rescue from heights
- Fire and rescue station 5 and fire department: Scheibenstraße ( Cologne-Weidenpesch ). Special tasks: technical assistance (equipment train), logistics, environmental protection
- Fire and rescue station 6: Volkhovener Weg ( Cologne-Chorweiler ). Special task: breathing apparatus training system, treatment station (rescue bus + WLF with AB-MANV NRW)
- Fire and rescue station 7: Kaiserstraße ( Cologne-Porz ). Special tasks: treatment area (team bus and rescue service equipment vehicle), breathing apparatus, lifeboat
- Fire and rescue station 8: Hardtgenbuscher Kirchweg ( Cologne-Ostheim ). Special task: environmental protection, animal rescue
- Fire and rescue station 9: Bergisch Gladbacher Straße ( Cologne-Mülheim )
- Fire and rescue station 10: Gummersbacher Straße ( Cologne-Deutz ). Special task: fireboat station, intensive care transport, vehicle workshop, equipment maintenance
- Fire and rescue station 14: Richard-Wagner-Straße ( Cologne-Lövenich ). Special task: radiation protection
Fire fighting groups of the volunteer fire brigade
The volunteer fire brigade also has over 800 fire fighters on a voluntary basis. It consists of the deletion groups:
- Bridge
- Dellbrück
- Thin forest
- Hurry
- Ensen-Westhoven
- Esch
- Flittard
- Feeling
- Heumar
- Wood willow
- Lime*
- Libur
- Longerich
- Langel-Rheinkassel
- Lövenich
- I remember
- Porz-Langel
- Rodenkirchen
- Roggendorf-Thenhoven
- Strunden
- Urbach *
- Wahn-Heide-Lind
- Hamlet Volkhoven
- Widdersdorf
- Worringen
- Zündorf
- Environmental protection service
- Telecommunication service *
On November 19, 2017, a fire fighting group was founded in the Kalk district for the first time in the history of the professional fire brigade. All others have so far been incorporated. In 2019, when the new building was completed, the new fire fighting group moved into a building complex at fire station 10.
The extinguishing groups marked with "*" have a BF location, so they are stationed at a professional fire station (the telecommunications service at station 5, Urbach at station 7, Kalk at station 10).
Trivia
The traditional carnival corps Kölsche Funkentöter was founded in 1932 at the Melchiorstrasse fire station by a regular group of firefighters. The Corps has around 110 members and takes part in the Cologne Rose Monday procession every year in historical costumes and with a historical syringe .
Due to the proximity to the WDR in Cologne, the Cologne fire brigade participated several times in the show with the mouse , such as B. with the "fire brigade song" or the " turntable ladder ".
In 2010 the Fire Brigade Sports Club Cologne eV was founded.
prehistory
From the beginning to the French era
.. After the year 69 AD Vitellius , the commander of the Lower Germanic army, his soldiers for Emperor was proclaimed to be the dining room came the judgment hall on fire - this was the first fire on the city of Cologne, was reported about that. According to Suetonius , he commented on this incident with the words “Be of good cheer, it was shining for us.” However, the good omen was none: Vitellius was killed in Rome a year later .
On February 18, 1080 the flames struck from the roof of the church of St. Maria ad Gradus , they are said to have extinguished "as if by miracle" in view of the shrine with the relics of St. Kunibert . A similar fire fighting measure failed in August 1128, when the Deutz Abbey fell victim to the flames. On St. Bartholomew's Night from August 23 to 24, 1349, citizens of Cologne stormed the Jewish quarter because the Jews allegedly poisoned the wells and thus caused the plague . The neighborhood was burned down and the people living there massacred.
In 1360, fire protection was first regulated by the Cologne City Council by appointing guild members to be fire fighters. Anyone who failed to work as a firefighter twice was banned from Cologne for a year. In addition, further rules were drawn up: Public officials had to ensure, among other things, that onlookers clear the way, and bakeries and breweries make their wells accessible for extinguishing. This is considered to be the foundation of the first fire brigade in Germany. After the creation of the Kölner Verbundbrief in 1396, fire fighting was regulated even more strictly. From 1414 there were fire guards who performed duty on the town hall tower .
In 1450 the first full-time fire brigade was launched in Cologne; Members of mendicant orders based in Cologne formed a reserve fire brigade. In the centuries that followed, the fire order was constantly reformed and expanded. In 1793 the fire fighting was handed over to the Cologne city artillery company. When the inventory was handed over, it turned out that many parts were missing, such as around a third of the 750 leather buckets that the guilds should have had. It is believed that citizens made shoes from it.
Until 1872
After Cologne was handed over to Napoleon's troops in October 1794, it took only a few weeks before the French authorities asked the citizens responsible for fire-fighting to keep records of the material available, and the order was given that all missing equipment should be purchased within eight days otherwise a penalty threatens. In the following year the fire protection regulations were tightened and the establishment of depots for the extinguishing devices was ordered. In the Département de la Roer , on August 19, 1801, the first Mayor Johann Peter Kramer from Cologne ordered the establishment of a corps des pompiers and in October 1801 a "Polizey Regulations on Conflagrations" were issued, which consisted of 139 articles.
After the end of the French era , at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Free Imperial City of Cologne in the Jülich-Kleve-Berg Province (part of the Rhine Province from 1822 ) fell to the Kingdom of Prussia . The structures created under French occupation initially remained. In 1833 a "renewed fire regulations for the city of Cologne" was issued. Thereafter, each of the four companies consisted of a chief, 5 sous-chefs (deputies), 15 pompiers (firemen) and 25 workers, and each company had five fire engines . There were first uniforms that consisted of blue skirts with black velvet collars. In 1837 the non-profit and entertaining Rhenish provincial papers said: "In Cologne on the Rhine there has been a fully regulated Pompier Corps for 34 years, the effectiveness of which has brought about such positive results that are certainly not shown in the entire Prussian monarchy."
On March 31, 1851, the artillery laboratory on the Carthusian Wall exploded . A total of 20 soldiers died, who were buried with great sympathy from the population in the Melaten cemetery , where a memorial still commemorates them today. The following year there was a major fire at Rothgerberbach, which resulted in a further reorganization of the fire brigade, such as the purchase of more syringes, higher salaries and the construction of further depots. In 1853 the city received two syringes from the Aachen and Munich fire insurance and in 1854 another one from the Cologne fire and accident insurance , which later became Colonia .
After a fire in the Große Brinkgasse in 1863, arguments broke out between the Pompier Corps and the council: a city councilor reported that the syringes were not functional and the firefighters were drunk. This resulted in renewed considerations to organize the fire brigade better, but further improvements failed largely due to the costs. The first fire station, manned only at night and in winter, was put into operation at the Apostle Monastery on December 1, 1866. In 1868 an engineer suggested the telegraphic connection - the telephone did not appear until the beginning of the 1880s - between the waterworks and the fire service, which was implemented in 1873 came. From now on, 42 fire alarm stations could also be used publicly.
At the end of the 1860s, there were further serious fires. The most tragic event was the renewed fire in the theater in Komödienstraße in 1869, which left eight dead. The then "Brand Director" Esser then presented plans to strengthen the fire brigade. In the city council meeting it was said that the “Brand Director seems to be an expensive person, because on the whole the previous fire brigade was enough”. This was countered by the fact that "after every fire accident, the equipment and behavior of the fire brigade are criticized, but that applications aimed at improving the same are regularly rejected".
History of the professional fire brigade
Foundation and the following decades
After the end of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and the subsequent establishment of the German Reich , the plans for a better fire department in the city were implemented: On May 26, 1872, 48 men signed the "Conditions for the acceptance of crews from the fire department of Cologne" On June 2, the men were sworn in in the gym of the trade school, today's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium . The Cologne professional fire brigade was founded.
A new fire extinguishing order came into effect and the service required the strictest discipline. Fire director Wienecke had to struggle with many problems. After an increase in salary from 1,300 to 2,000 thalers was rejected in 1875, he resigned. His successor was Edmund Brüllow, who received an annual salary of 5,000 marks and remained in office until 1899. Under him health and accident insurance were introduced for the firefighters. He also succeeded in converting the previous auxiliary guard at the Apostle Monastery into a main guard, where regular training could also be carried out. The annual costs for the fire brigade rose from 6,000 to 85,000 marks, but in return the insurance companies reduced their premiums to such an extent that the citizens of Cologne were able to save around 158,000 marks.
In 1887, the first steam sprayer was purchased with financial support from insurance companies. The incorporation of suburbs to Cologne in the following year made new facilities necessary, such as the construction of additional fire stations. The new main fire station (today the “ Alte Feuerwache ” community center) was put into operation in 1890 in Melchiorstrasse. The professional fire brigade now had 96 men and an annual budget of 200,000 marks, plus there were volunteer fire brigades with 300 men. In 1899, the professional fire brigade was given the task of transporting the ambulance, purchasing two horse-drawn ambulances, hiring nine more firefighters and purchasing two horses. In 1901 it was decided to build a harbor fire station and in 1902 the first automobile gas syringe was acquired for its operation, which remained in operation for 19 years until the harbor watch closed. Between 1872 and 1904 a total of five fire stations were put into operation.
In 1902 the first Cologne fire engine (an automobile gas syringe with 2.5 hp and a top speed of 16 km / h) was put into service and in 1904 the first steam-powered fire engine in Germany. In 1911 the company moved into a new fire station in Deutz , which received an electrically powered fire engine. Three years later, a guard was to be built in Lindenthal , but it was n't put into operation until 1921 because of the First World War . In 1916 a fireboat was purchased, which remained in operation until 1963.
During the First World War, the number of fires grew steadily as a result of the circumstances; on the other hand, around half of the 200 or so firefighters in the professional fire brigade were drafted as soldiers, and the situation was similar for the voluntary fire brigade with around 550 members. When it became clear that the security precautions in the city had been neglected too much, soldiers who were only fit for garrison service were trained as firefighters in 1916. The numerous explosives factories in Cologne, in which explosions with many fatalities occurred again and again, were a particularly big problem. In 1917 alone there were 24 major fires in Cologne, including in the municipal slaughterhouse, the airship hall and in the main hall of the Werkbund exhibition . Large air raids followed on March 25, May 18 and August 22, 1918, resulting in numerous deaths.
At the end of the war, the equipment used by the Cologne fire brigade was in poor condition. In the revolutionary turmoil, the fire stations even had to be protected from looting. In 1920, however, after the transition from 48-hour to 24-hour duty, with a total of 369 employees, the professional fire brigade reached its highest staffing level since 1872, comprising eight fire stations, the harbor fire station, two theater guards in the opera and theater and the fire alarm center of the Volunteer fire brigade in Mülheim distributed. Due to the inflation , however, the workforce was drastically reduced by order of Mayor Konrad Adenauer until 1929 , the remaining firefighters had to work longer, the fire station in Nippes was closed, and further savings measures were implemented. The Rheinische Zeitung wrote: “Adenauer is rumored to have an aversion to the fire brigade.” Also for cost reasons, all horse-drawn fire engines were replaced by motorized ones in 1926.
In 1929 two firefighters were killed in a cellar fire in the Ehape department store on Venloer Straße due to smoke inhalation. Up to this point in time there was hardly any smoke inhalation, as most of the apartments at that time were sparsely furnished and natural materials such as wood, paper or textiles caught fire; however, celluloid had caught fire in the basement of the department store and toxins had developed. Then each of the 307 Cologne firefighters received a personally adapted gas mask, and the attack team always had to consist of three men.
1933 to 1945
Shortly after the seizure of power of the NSDAP , the Cologne fire department in March 1933 was instructed not of " Jewish letting supply company", also allowed the fire no people of Jewish descent deal, and it was found that this was in any case not the case.
As early as 1933, the Cologne professional fire brigade was included in the planning for future air protection . With effect from January 1, 1934, with the "Law on Fire Extinguishing" of the State of Prussia , the professional fire brigade of the city of Cologne was also subordinated to the police president of the Ordnungspolizei (→ fire brigades in the Nazi era ). In 1936 the first large air defense exercise was carried out in Cologne with the participation of the fire brigade.
The keystone for the integration of fire extinguishing into the police, which was carried out by the National Socialists , was the “ Law on Fire Extinguishing ” enacted on November 23, 1938 . In it, the competence for the fire-fighting system was withdrawn from the federal states and the supervision of the service was transferred to the Reich . As part of the order police was prepared from the fire extinguishing police and fire departments, the materials and volunteer fire police formed. Their officers and men were given police ranks, each with the addition ".. der Feuerschutzpolizei" (eg sergeant of the fire police). From July 31, 1940, all new fire engines were only delivered to the police in fir green ( RAL 6009).
The National Socialists regarded the Cologne professional fire brigade as a “stronghold of Marxism” and “as the peak achievement of the red and black rulers, which neither in Cologne nor in the empire can be surpassed in Marxist swamp and spirit”. On May 1, 1933, the fire service unions were banned. Some functionaries, including the chairman of the Association of German Professional Fire Fighters (VDB), chief fire fighter Georg Pütz, were taken into " protective custody ". By the end of 1934, 16 members of the fire brigade had been dismissed for political reasons, ten others, including the previous conservative Catholic fire director Sturm, retired early and seven employees were transferred. These firefighters were replaced z. B. by members of the SA .
Fire director Sturm was charged with bribery along with fire directors from other cities in 1937 ; the allegations stemmed partly from the period before 1933. Five defendants committed during the process of suicide . Sturm was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, five years of loss of honor and a heavy fine, and he also lost his pension rights. The sentence against him was overturned in 1949.
In May 1934, the head of the Alter Markt fire station, Dr. Niehaus, a doctorate lawyer and chemist in fighting a fire in the chemical Fabrik Kalk (CFK) died after there is a glass container with nitric acid to fight was broken and Niehaus had tried together with colleagues using gases with spray.
During the November pogroms in 1938 the synagogues Roonstrasse , Glockengasse and Körnerstrasse were set on fire . The fire brigade was prevented from extinguishing work by the police and the SS ; The only exceptions were when “non-Jewish” property was at risk. The head of the Lindenthal fire station delayed the deployment of the fire engines until the synagogue on Körnerstrasse was ablaze. Severely injured Jewish people from all over Cologne had to be brought to the Jewish hospital in Ehrenfeld . "At the request of the hospital management to the professional fire brigade, the vehicle with the officers stayed there for protection."
On the day of the attack on Poland , September 1, 1939, the air raid protection was immediately called in Cologne. The guards' crews were only allowed to return home after 14 days. Already at this time was next to the fire brigade and the volunteer fire department of the fire and detoxification services primarily of men from 36 to 64 years old and not trained firemen, as many members of the professional fire to army moved in, the aviation industry or for the Organization Todt ordered had been. The fire extinguishing and detoxification service was now part of the security and emergency service (SHD) and was under the police chief.
In Cologne took place a first air raid in World War II by the British Royal Air Force on June 18, 1940. In the night of May 31, 1942 led the RAF Bomber Command , the operation Millennium against Cologne by the first " 1,000-bomber raid “On a German city. 494 people died, including 26 firefighters, and over 5000 were injured. Of around 12,000 fires, 2,500 were described as “ large ” by the fire brigade . 3300 of around 58,000 Cologne houses were totally destroyed and over 45,000 Cologne residents were homeless. In autumn 1942, the fire protection police and the air raid police , successors to the security and auxiliary service, were subordinated to the SS and police jurisdiction. By March 1945 there had been a total of 262 air raids on the city, which resulted in 20,000 deaths and 70 percent of the homes destroyed. All firefighters left the city with all fire engines on March 6, 1945 and drove to the area on the right bank of the Rhine. On April 13, 1945, the commander of the Cologne Fire Police, Colonel Walter Hans, gave the order to destroy existing weapons, hand in the vehicles, surrender or simply go home.
Since 1945
On March 10, 1945, Jakob Krings from Cologne was commissioned by the British military government to rebuild fire protection in Cologne. Previously, loudspeaker trucks had driven through the city and asked former members of the police and fire department to report to the fire department for service. Krings organized an old Opel Blitz fire engine in Rondorf . Krings began his work with a total of 15 employees, three of whom were terminated because of their membership in the NSDAP , but by June the number of employees was over 200. Of the nine fire stations, four were completely bombed, others were inaccessible or were by used by the Allies. The fire station in Vondelstrasse, although partially destroyed, was the first to go into operation. Most of it was rebuilt in-house until 1948. The 422 public and 435 private fire alarms and the connecting cables were also largely destroyed.
As a result, there were repeated tug-of-wars over the attitude of men because of their political views. In October 1948 the works council decided to classify all fire service officers classified as followers in the denazification process as they had been paid in 1933.
In October 1948 Colonel Hans took over the management of the Cologne fire brigade again. Although he successfully campaigned for staff and equipment, he was attacked, especially from the ranks of the SPD , because he had contributed to the dismissal of the chief fireman Georg Pütz in 1933. At a works meeting in March 1950, however, 95 percent of those present voted to remain in office.
On September 16, 1948, another firefighter was killed in a fire in the basement of a high-rise building on Hansaring due to the lack of breathing protection . His supervisor was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to order the use of oxygen equipment.
In April 1945 the first patient transports were resumed. The vehicles, mostly in a dilapidated condition, came mainly from Wehrmacht stocks. From the beginning of the 1950s, the fleet was expanded, as the number of accidents increased steadily due to increasing road traffic; In 1957 the first specially designed ambulance was put into operation. In 1956, transportation for premature babies was added. From August 1954, the fire brigade was also responsible for transporting animals, for which a trailer was available; In 1969 the first animal transport wagon was purchased. In 1955 a diving department was set up. From the end of the 1950s, the Cologne fire brigade had a modern fleet of vehicles from Magirus-Deutz ; until 1962 the war vehicles were sold or scrapped. In 1956 the fire and rescue station in Ehrenfeld was inaugurated and in 1962 the new inner city station in Agrippastraße.
From June 23 to July 2, 1961, the exhibition Der Rote Hahn - Interschutz took place in Rheinhallen 7 and 8 . In addition to industry, the authorities and organizations involved in disaster control presented themselves there . Professional fire brigades from abroad such as Bern , Paris and Vienna as well as insurance companies and the chimney sweep trade were among others represented as exhibitors. There were historical demonstrations of fire fighting in the 16th century every day.
In the following decades, the equipment, logistics and tasks of the Cologne fire brigade were steadily expanded. The city's first fire-fighting boat was inaugurated in 1967, the Christoph 3 rescue helicopter flew for the first time in 1971 , and the Scheibenstrasse fire and rescue station, where the control center is located, was opened in 1978.
According to estimates from the early 1990s, 25 years in the rescue service of the Cologne fire brigade mean around 20,000 missions per man, 12,750 trips “with special rights ”, 910 missions with children and 875 deaths. This stress increasingly led to mental illness among the men in the fire brigade, which is why the first fire brigade chaplain was commissioned in 1993 , from which a psychosocial follow-up team later developed.
In 1996, the 25-year-old fire chief Andreas Stampe was killed in a cellar fire in Zollstock due to smoke poisoning because his fire line got caught and he was therefore unable to leave the scene of the fire in time. Although he could be saved unconscious, he died after three days in the hospital. The final report on the incident led to a nationwide amendment to the fire service regulations for respiratory protection.
Due to the incorporation and further settlement growth, new fire brigade guards had to be set up. In 1987 the Lövenich fire and rescue station, the Chorweiler fire and rescue station in 1994, the Marienburg fire and rescue station in 2002, and the Ostheim fire and rescue station in 2003. In January 2006, the new building of a management and training center for the Cologne fire brigade, also in the Scheibenstrasse, was inaugurated. Such a center had become necessary because the number of fire brigade candidates had increased from 40 to 170 and the length of the training was extended from twelve to 22 months. The control center has also been modernized.
Outstanding stakes
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Selection of deployments by the Cologne fire brigade since the Second World War that made headlines.
- June 11, 1964: Volkhoven assassinated
- April 18, 1975: Fire on the cabin ship Prinses Irene on Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer, in which 21 people were killed
- March 14, 1977: Arson in the house at Thebäerstr. 42/44 in Ehrenfeld with several dead, including the well-known cyclist Willy Trost
- October 20, 1977: Fire in the Ford spare parts warehouse in Merkenich with total damage of 370 million marks
- June 18, 1980: Roof fire in St. Agnes Church
- January 18, 1985: Explosion in ethylene plant No. 4 at the Rheinische Olefinwerke (ROW) in Wesseling with 43 injured, 200 million marks damage
- September 9, 1987: Fire in house Hohenzollernring 88, five fire deaths and the dramatic rescue of 20 people
- February 28, 1990: Hurricane Wiebke resulted in more than 2500 requests for help
- December 1993: Rhine flood
- December 24, 1995: Fire caused by arson on the premises of Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz , damage of around 235 million marks
- 6./7. May 1999: Explosion on the Avanti tanker in Worringen with three dead and ten injured
- May 28, 2000: Fire in the Praktiker hardware store in Esch . Several members of the Esch fire fighting group were convicted as arsonists, who are said to have been involved in a total of 51 arson attacks.
- September 29, 2005: Inclination of the Church of St. Johann Baptist . Evacuation of the area and blocking of the streets by the fire brigade
- March 25, 2007: The motor ship Excelsior lost 32 containers, including three with dangerous goods. The Cologne fire brigade recovered the containers that blocked the Rhine channel for five days.
- March 17, 2008: Fire of 2,860 tons of acrylonitrile at Ineos in Cologne-Worringen
- March 3, 2009: The collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne cost two people their lives. The retrieval of the archive material was completed on August 8, 2011. Until the completion of the inspection structure, which was planned for 2014, the collapse site will remain an operational site under the direction of the Cologne fire brigade. The collapse thus led to "probably the longest fire service in the history of the German fire service". In December 2017 it became known that the end of the preservation of evidence will be postponed until 2019, as the expert Hans-Georg Kempfert commissioned by the Cologne Regional Court has requested deeper excavations.
- Since June 27, 2012: In Cologne-Kalk , Germany's second tunnel fire station has been set up next to the Hamburg Elbe tunnel on the double-deck road tunnel on Bundesstraße 55a . The tunnel has serious fire protection deficiencies and is being renovated during ongoing operations, which was only permitted by the establishment of the guard. Three employees in a container monitor the tunnel in shifts using video cameras. In the event of a fire, they can block the driveways and fight the fire with a fire engine and a fire support vehicle .
- October 21, 2014: During the passage of the low storm "Gonzalo", the Cologne Rhine cable car blocked in the afternoon after a cabin had jumped out of a rope. Six people, including a toddler and an infant, were trapped in two of the gondolas. Rescue workers from the fire brigade evacuated all passengers by abseiling from the affected gondolas by late evening. After dark, a family of four had to be abseiled from a cabin 40 meters above the Rhine to a fire engine .
- October 24, 2018: During an operation in the southern part of Cologne, an apartment building burned out almost completely. The fire spread from the first floor to the roof structure and caused the stairwell and parts of the roof to collapse. The Cologne fire brigade was deployed with 185 forces. Two people died and four residents were slightly injured. A firefighter was slightly injured.
- January 1, 2019: On New Year's Eve there was a fire in the Cologne high-rise complex Kölnberg . An apartment there burned down completely. The professional fire brigade was on site with several fire engines, ambulances and support from the voluntary fire brigade. Young people set fire to a heap of rubbish while the fire brigade and police were within reach. During the fire, there was also a mass brawl between around 50 young men who fell apart. The police could only bring the situation under control with several more patrol cars and a crew of hundreds.
literature
- Stephan Neuhoff : Fire and flame. History of fire protection in Cologne. Published by the Association for the Promotion of Fire Protection in Cologne eV, Cologne 2014
Web links
- Fire brigade NRW. feuerwehr-nrw.de, accessed on July 4, 2014 .
- Fire and rescue services. City of Cologne, accessed on July 4, 2014 .
- Cologne professional fire brigade. Cologne Professional Fire Brigade, accessed on July 4, 2014 .
- Open day at the fire brigade June 30, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 5 f.
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 4
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 9
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 11
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 53
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 54
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 59 f.
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 62
- ^ Annual report 2010 of the Cologne fire brigade. Edited by Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne. P. 63
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- ↑ Fire brigade relies on female support. koeln.de, February 1, 2011, accessed on July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Women in the fire brigade - a brief review. (No longer available online.) Network firefighters, archived from the original on July 28, 2014 ; Retrieved July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ 21st Federal Congress of Firefighters in Cologne was a complete success. retter.tv, November 10, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2014 .
- ^ Historical teaching collection of the BF Cologne. Fire fighting museums in Germany, accessed July 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Guard: BF Cologne FuRW 07 (FW) - BOS vehicles - emergency vehicles and guards worldwide. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Cologne volunteer fire brigade. Cologne volunteer fire brigade, accessed on July 28, 2014 .
- ^ New lime fire fighting group founded: a novelty in the Cologne volunteer fire brigade. In: rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Kölsche Funkentöter. koelsche-funkentoeter.de, accessed on July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Broadcast with the mouse "Die Feuerwehr". YouTube, accessed July 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Broadcast with the mouse "Turntable ladder". YouTube, accessed August 9, 2014 . (Note: the video starts after the approximately 30-second mouse song)
- ^ Association history. (No longer available online.) Cologne Fire Brigade Sports Club, archived from the original on November 4, 2014 ; Retrieved July 20, 2014 .
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