Mülheim fire department

Mülheim fire department
Office of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr
Professional fire brigade
Founding year:	1924
Locations:	2
Employee:	247 (April 9, 2019)
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year:	2001 (a FF existed from 1887 to 1946)
Departments:	2
Active members:	100 (April 11, 2019)
Youth fire brigade
Founding year:	2007
Groups:	2
Members:	80
Mülheim fire department

The Mülheim fire brigade consists of the professional fire brigade (BF) and the volunteer fire brigade (FF) and is responsible for fire and disaster protection in the 170,000-inhabitant city of Mülheim an der Ruhr . With over 80 vehicles, the Mülheim fire department drives over 30,000 missions a year.

Until 2001, Mülheim was the only city in Germany without a volunteer fire brigade. For 55 years only the professional fire brigade ensured fire protection in the Ruhr area city . The computer game Emergency Call 112 - The Fire Brigade Simulation was created in cooperation with the Mülheim fire brigade.

history

According to the city's fire protection ordinance, all male residents of Mülheim were obliged to ensure fire protection. With the development of the first gymnastics fire brigades and voluntary vigilante groups from 1865, this obligation no longer existed for men.

The first volunteer fire brigade was founded in the Saarn district in 1879. The municipal volunteer fire brigade was founded on August 11, 1887, whereupon the vigilante and gymnastics fire brigades were dissolved.

As a result, more fire brigades were founded and so the Mülheim volunteer fire brigade had a team of 230 members in 1912.

Until 1924 the volunteer fire brigade was solely responsible for fire protection in Mülheim, on April 1st the professional fire brigade was founded. In the following years the professional fire brigade worked together with the volunteer fire brigade, but due to a lack of interest and poor or missing equipment, the volunteer fire brigade was dissolved in October 1946. From then on, only the professional fire brigade was responsible for fire protection.

During the Reichspogromnacht from November 9th to 10th, 1938, the synagogue building in Mülheim burned down. The fire was started by the Mülheim fire department itself on the orders of the fire chief Freter of the Mülheim fire department, who was also the SS leader. The fire brigade limited its extinguishing work to preventing the fire from spreading to neighboring houses.

On the night of June 22nd to 23rd, 1943, the main guard station on Aktienstraße was largely destroyed by a targeted attack. This attack in the run-up to the bombing of Mülheim by Anglo-American bombers was intended to prevent the fire brigade from intervening in the subsequent fires and thus alleviating the destruction of the city.

In 1959 and 1979 the fire station of the professional fire brigade on Aktienstrasse was expanded. For a long time, this location was the only fire station in the city.

In a council resolution of December 14th, 2000 the re-establishment of the volunteer fire brigade was decided. After preparatory measures on the part of the professional fire brigade, the Mülheim volunteer fire brigade was officially founded on September 19, 2001.

In October 2005, a new fire and rescue station was opened in the Heißen district . It did not replace the more than 80-year-old fire station on Aktienstraße, but serves as an additional location so that the districts east of the Ruhr can be reached more quickly by the fire brigade. The fire station of the volunteer fire brigade was also built on the site .

In 2010, a new fire and rescue station was built on Duisburger Strasse in Broich , which supplies the districts west of the Ruhr. It replaces the 80-year-old fire station on Aktienstraße. In addition, another location for the volunteer fire brigade was set up here.

Professional fire brigade

An LF 24 of the BF at the fire and rescue station 2

The professional fire brigade is responsible for fire protection , assistance , the rescue service and for disaster and civil protection . For this purpose, 244 employees are available in the fire service at two locations. There are also workplaces in workshops and in administration.

At every fire and rescue station there is a fire extinguisher consisting of ten emergency services available around the clock , plus two ambulances per station with four personnel . The fire fighting train in Mülheim consists of a turntable ladder, a tank fire engine and a fire fighting vehicle. In addition, the rescue divers and the crews for the special vehicles are on duty at the guards. The professional fire brigade maintains emergency doctor stations at the two Mülheim hospitals, where a paramedic is stationed around the clock . In the event of an emergency, he drives the emergency doctor to the scene in the emergency vehicle (NEF).

Fire and rescue station 1

The new main fire and rescue station of the professional fire brigade and the fire station of the volunteer fire brigade, Broich fire brigade, have been built on the former railway site north of Duisburger Strasse. The access road on the site has been given the name “To the old lathe shop”, a reference to the former use of the historic hall next to the site of the new main fire station.

The official commissioning of the new fire and rescue station took place on September 21, 2010. The clearing or clearing of the planned area began in July 2008. The foundation stone for the new main fire and rescue station was laid on February 26, 2009; the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on August 20, 2009.

The buildings are arranged on the site in such a way that a larger inner courtyard is created, which allows working and practicing without unnecessarily bothering the neighborhood. When arranging the buildings, care was of course also taken to ensure that the emergency services and vehicles that were deployed first are housed centrally in order to keep the distances as short as possible. Buildings A to D are connected by bridges. The main fire station has a complete emergency power supply so that operation can be ensured even in the event of a longer power failure.

The following buildings or areas are arranged on the site:

Building A houses the fire department, the command and situation center and the specialist departments. In addition, there are vehicle parking spaces for command and control vehicles as well as special vehicles. There are also changing facilities for the guide service as well as technical and storage rooms. The command and situation center is the "control center" not only for the fire brigade, but especially for the entire security system in the city. The control center for the fire brigade and rescue service, staff rooms for the technical operations management and the crisis team, the personal information center, the citizen hotline and specialist adviser rooms are located here in close proximity to each other.

The fire and rescue service school is located on the first floor of building B. The central resource store and the hall for the roll-off containers with special equipment are located on the ground floor.

The emergency services are housed in building C. This is where all the vehicles that move out first when deployed are located. The ground floor is divided into two areas. In the left area are the vehicles for fire protection and technical assistance, in the right area the vehicles of the rescue service and additionally various necessary functional and storage rooms in the middle. The lounge, social and changing rooms of the emergency personnel are located on the upper floor.

All of the workshops necessary for the fire brigade's round-the-clock operation are housed in building D. In particular, the disinfection for the rescue service, the respiratory protection workshop, the car workshop, the wash hall, the hose workshop, locksmith's shop and carpenter's shop as well as some small workshops (e.g. radio workshop, tailoring, etc.) are located here. In addition, the breathing protection training course, the clothes closet, the diving training pool as well as the sports hall and fitness room are located here.

Building E is the fire station for the volunteer fire brigade. The new Broich fire brigade of the volunteer fire brigade and another group of the youth fire brigade have found their home here.

Building F is the fire training house. Right next to it is a small sports field and a practice facility for handling hazardous substances (rail tank cars on a short track).

Fire and rescue station 2

The vehicle hall of the fire station 2

In 2005, another location for the professional fire brigade was inaugurated in Heißen. The eastern districts of Mülheim that could not be reached quickly enough before are supplied from here.

In the vehicle hall are the vehicles of the fire engine ( fire fighting vehicle 24 (LF 24), tank fire engine 24/50 (TLF 24/50) and turntable ladder with basket 23-12 (DLK 23-12)), and the small emergency vehicle (KEF), a wash hall is also housed there. In the left head part of the guard building there are three ambulances, two of which are permanently manned. The forces of fire station 2 also manned the emergency vehicle of the St. Marien Hospital. The building also houses workshops, technical, storage, rest and training rooms, offices, a sports room and the kitchen. The volunteer fire brigade is located in the right part of the fire station.

Volunteer firefighter

Since 2001 there is again a volunteer fire brigade in Mülheim. The fire brigade, founded on August 11, 1887, was solely responsible for fire protection in Mülheim until 1924 and worked with the professional fire brigade until it was dissolved in 1946.

At the end of 2000 the city council decided to re-establish a volunteer fire brigade after 55 years. The reasons for the establishment of the volunteer fire brigade lie in the legal obligations required by the Fire Protection and Assistance Act of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and especially the optimization of fire protection. The professional fire brigade reaches its limits during longer missions and major incidents as well as several missions at the same time. Because a volunteer fire brigade is a helpful reserve in such situations and thereby increases the level of safety for the population, the decision was made in Mülheim to establish it. After important groundwork had been set in terms of financing, training and member recruitment, the Mülheim volunteer fire brigade was re-established on September 19, 2001.

At the moment there are almost 100 active fire fighters at Mülheim Fire Brigade, who have ten vehicles at their disposal. Your tasks are to support the professional fire brigade in major incidents, e.g. B. after thunderstorms, as well as for longer-lasting operations such as fire operations, technical assistance, water pumping and environmental protection.

HLF 20/6 of the LZ Heissen

Fire brigade Broich

Fire fighting train 11 of the volunteer fire brigade is based in the Broich district. In the course of the new building of the main fire station, another fire station was built for the volunteer fire brigade. On September 21, 2010 the Broich fire engine was officially put into service. The active members are an aid Löschgruppenfahrzeug 06.20 (HLF 06/20) Löschgruppenfahrzeug LF20 KatS the Federal (LF 20 KatS), a Schlauchwagen 2000 with troop crew (SW 2000), a team transport vehicle (MTF) and a decontamination truck persons (decontamination trucks P) available. At the end of 2010, a fire truck (TLF 16/24 Tr.) Previously used by the professional fire brigade was stationed with the Broich fire engine.

Fire truck hot

Fire brigade 12 of the volunteer fire brigade is based in the district of Heißen. The fire station has been located in fire and rescue station 2 since 2005, where the four vehicles are located. Active members have access to an emergency fire fighting group vehicle 20/6 (HLF 20/6), a fire fighting group vehicle LF20 KatS of the federal government (LF 20 KatS), a team transport vehicle (MTF) and a decontamination truck people (decontamination truck P).

Youth fire brigade

On March 7, 2007, the youth fire brigade (JF) Mülheim started its service at the Heißen location. There has also been a youth fire brigade in Broich since 2013. A total of around 40 young people are active in both youth fire departments.

Other tasks

Ambulance service

The fire brigade of the city of Mülheim is the core sponsor of the rescue service in the city; in addition to the fire brigade, aid organizations are also involved in the rescue service. For emergencies, the fire brigade has a total of seven ambulances, four of which are manned around the clock. The vehicles are stationed at fire and rescue stations 1 and 2. In the event of an emergency, they are supplemented by the emergency doctor vehicles in accordance with the rendezvous principle. The ambulance and the emergency doctor's vehicle meet at the scene of action and are alerted in parallel. The ambulance vehicles are stationed at the two Mülheim hospitals (St. Marien Hospital and Evangelical Hospital), which also provide the emergency doctors.

In addition, the aid organizations DRK and JUH each provide an ambulance at RW locations 3 and 4.

For less severe cases in which there is no risk to life, ambulances are available, which are mainly manned by employees of the German Red Cross (DRK) and Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH).

The city of Mülheim is part of the carrier community of the rescue helicopter " Christoph 9 ", which is stationed in neighboring Duisburg .

Disaster and civil protection

In addition to the Mülheim fire department, other organizations are involved in disaster control. 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) should be mentioned here. Furthermore, the Mülheim hospitals and emergency pastoral care are involved in disaster control.

In order to practice for emergencies, a joint exercise by the aid organizations takes place once a year, in which the mass casualty is simulated.

The units are used not only in Mülheim, but also beyond the city limits. The missions outside the urban area include the World Youth Day 2005 , the Soccer World Cup 2006 and the accident at the Love Parade 2010 in Duisburg.

Web links

• Mülheim fire department
• Mülheim volunteer fire department
• Broich fire brigade of the Mülheim volunteer fire brigade
• Extinguishing train called the Mülheim volunteer fire brigade
• Mülheim youth fire brigade

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fire brigade simulation takes place in Mülheim fire station , Der Westen, October 15, 2015
2. ↑ Thomas Emons: A high ornament of the city. (No longer available online.) In: derwesten.de . August 16, 2007, archived from the original on September 4, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2019 .