Mainz fire department
| Mainz fire department | |
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 Office of the City of Mainz
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 The headquarters of the professional fire brigade in Mainz-Bretzenheim |
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| Professional fire brigade | |
| Founding year: | 1906 |
| Locations: | 2 |
| Employee: | 220 (as of 2017) |
| Vehicles: | 55 and 6 KatS |
| Volunteer firefighter | |
| Founding year: | 1849 |
| Departments: | 11 |
| Active members: | 370 (as of 2017) |
| Vehicles: | 45 apartments |
| Youth fire brigade | |
| Groups: | 11 |
| Members: | 150 (as of 2017) |
| berufsfeuerwehr-mainz.de | |
The Mainz fire brigade is an office (Office 37) of the city of Mainz assigned to Department I - The Lord Mayor of the State Capital Mainz , which takes on part of the public welfare in the state capital. It is divided into a professional fire department at two locations and eleven volunteer fire departments , each with a youth fire department .
Areas of responsibility
The city of Mainz has assigned various tasks to the fire department. In addition to the usual tasks of fire protection , technical assistance , civil protection and disaster relief , operation of a supra-local control center , removal of animal carcasses, fire security service at events, assessment of construction plans, risk prevention shows and fire protection education, there were additional areas of responsibility such as transport of the chief emergency doctor, removal of traces of oil, monitoring of traffic lights after the office in charge has closed and external fire protection training.
history
In Mainz, the first thoughts on founding an organized fire brigade emerged in 1845, when the gymnastics instructors Mämpel and Müller received fire engines from the city to train the members of the gymnastics clubs they headed. From that gymnastics team, the volunteer fire brigade was founded in October 1849 by master chimney sweep Carl Weiser (1811-1865). Weiser enjoyed his training with the Paris fire department. Under his leadership, the fire brigade developed by leaps and bounds until it finally consisted of over 140 men and 16 fire engines, divided into two divisions, each with two platoons. Anyone who wanted to become a firefighter volunteered and was hired for at least five years. Carl Weiser had a fatal accident on June 16, 1865 in a fire at 75 Gaugasse. During the laying down of a chimney, which the fire director Weiser directed from a cornice, he was killed by the collapsing chimney.
The volunteer fire brigade had to pass its first major test on November 18, 1857, when the Mainz powder tower was blown up by an explosion of over 200 hundredweight of explosives and many grenades and destroyed an entire district. 153 people were killed, hundreds seriously and thousands slightly injured. The soldiers worked for days and nights to rescue the living from the ruins of collapsed houses and to rescue the dead, as well as to put out numerous fires that kept flaring up.
In 1860 the 4th German Fire Brigade Day and in 1904 the 16th German Fire Brigade Day took place in Mainz.
April 1, 1906 is considered to be the founding date of the professional fire brigade. As early as August 1903, the city council appointed the engineer Anton Darapsky (1869–1918), who had been employed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1896, to succeed the late fire director Fritz Pricken. In the autumn of 1903 Darapsky completed an internship at the Cologne fire brigade and in 1904 began his service as Mainz fire director; but remained assigned to the Department of Mechanical Engineering until his death in 1918.
Initially, six full-time firefighters, employed from the ranks of the volunteer fire brigade, were under the command of the municipal fire brigade sergeant Jakob Leischner (1869–1929). He had been a volunteer firefighter himself since he was 19 and had been running a wallpapering business in Mainz since 1892. In 1906 Leischner moved into the office and official apartment allocated to him on the 2nd floor of the house at Neubrunnenstrasse 13. From this point onwards, this municipal building served as fire station 1; but at the same time as an administrative office and police station. The professional fire brigade maintained its quarters in Neubrunnenstrasse in Mainz-Altstadt until 1962 when a new building in Barbarossaring ( Mainz-Neustadt ) could be moved into. Then the Mainz-Stadt volunteer fire brigade used the fire station on Neubrunnenstrasse.
Jakob Leischner headed the volunteer fire brigade and the permanent watch for two years after Darapsky's death in 1918, until city architect Albert Noehl was appointed full-time fire director. On January 31, 1929, Jakob Leischner had a fatal accident while on duty in a fire in a French car dealership on Wallstrasse. The street on which the new building of fire station 1 (Bretzenheim) is located is reminiscent of the city of Mainz's first full-time fire service sergeant.
Professional fire brigade
staff
The professional fire brigade currently has 218 permanent positions (as of 2015). Of these, 181 are allocated to the middle fire service, 24 to the higher fire service and 2 positions to the higher fire service. In addition, 11 employees are employed by the professional fire brigade.
The emergency duty is carried out by a total of six guard departments (ABC, three on each guard) on a 24-hour basis and according to a fixed basic pattern in a shift period of three weeks. The duty at the two fire stations begins daily for two guard departments at 7:00 a.m. and ends the next day at 7:00 a.m. The fire brigade officers work an average of 48 hours per week.
The tactical leadership functions such as operations control service and D-service are taken over by officials of the higher and higher fire-fighting service as part of a mixed duty of day and night times. During the non-working time, the management service works in a department or in a subject area assigned to it.
Locations
The Mainz professional fire brigade is currently spread across two guards in the city: Mainz-Bretzenheim and Mainz-Neustadt.
Fire station 1 (Mainz-Bretzenheim)
With the municipal reform in 1969 and the resulting enlargement of the urban area through incorporations, it was necessary to set up a second permanently manned fire station in Wedekindstrasse on the Lerchenberg in 1971. A target practice range was converted for this purpose. This provisional fire station remained in operation until May 1992 and was only replaced by the construction of a new fire station - today's Fire Station 1 - in the Bretzenheim district.
Fire station 1 is located in Mainz-Bretzenheim and was put into operation in May 1992 after a construction period of 27 months. The location for the new building was the result of a study to optimize the location for ideal implementation.
The two-storey building with a total volume of 35,000 m³ of enclosed space offers space for 30 emergency vehicles. The facade of the guard consists of a combination of red exposed brickwork and blue metal elements. The entire system is dominated by a 24 m high hose and exercise tower, which is also an antenna carrier. The area of the fire station is connected to two points in terms of traffic. From Jakob-Leischner-Straße there is a driveway to the internal depot; The emergency exit of the fire service vehicles takes place via the district road K3 (Koblenzer Straße). To secure the exit in the event of an alarm, the necessary traffic lights can be switched by the fire brigade. The functional and social rooms of the security team are located on the 1st floor above the vehicle hall wing. Seven slide shafts form the vertical connection to the vehicle hall. The relaxation rooms are each equipped with six beds.
In addition to the operations department, fire station 1 is home to the management and administration of the fire brigade, the control center , the technology department and the operations organization department, as well as the press and public relations department. Furthermore, the fire station 1 has a breathing apparatus workshop with the breathing apparatus training system, a car workshop , a driving school and the clothing store.
Fire station 2 (Mainz-Neustadt)
Old fire station 2
The old fire station 2 at Barbarossaring has not been in operation since April 2014. The fire station, which cost around 6.2 million Deutschmarks at the time, was built in 1962 on the site of the former Alice barracks and offered space for 16 emergency vehicles. The preventive fire protection department was also located here. In addition, the diving workshop, the hose workshop, the fire extinguisher workshop, the equipment workshop, the laundry, the joinery and the locksmith's shop were located here. After parts of the building were blocked due to damage at the end of the 2000s and no longer accessible, the guard was replaced by a new building on Rheinallee. After the existing buildings were demolished, the site was sold for residential construction and development was completed in 2018.
New fire station 2
The planning for the new fire station 2 on Rheinallee, corner of Kaiser-Karl-Ring, began in 2006. On February 25, 2011 construction began. On April 28, 2014, fire station 2 of the fire brigade in the Rheinallee in Mainz-Neustadt was opened by the Mayor of Mainz, Michael Ebling .
It serves as a common location for the professional fire brigade and volunteer fire brigade. The cost of the construction was estimated at 18.6 million euros, the state contributed with a grant of 4.7 million euros.
The property has a size of approx. 6,000 m², the main usable area is approx. 4,650 m² and the enclosed space is approx. 47,000 m³.
The building complex is spatially separated into volunteer fire brigade and professional fire brigade. Both fire departments have:
- Vehicle hangars
- Training areas
- Changing rooms / showers
- a shared stair tower in which the fire hoses can also be dried after operations.
There is a kitchen for the volunteer fire brigade and a room for the youth fire brigade .
In addition, the professional fire brigade has:
- Lounges
- Large kitchen (designed for the preparation of 200 meals)
- Relaxation rooms (each firefighter has his own fold-away bed.)
- Fallback control center (if the control center in Bretzenheim fails)
- Sports area (weight room and sports hall)
- Administrative rooms
- laundry
- Workshops (carpentry, diving equipment, fire extinguishing test room)
Fire engine
The professional fire brigade works with a so-called "2-vehicle concept". A "short fire-fighting train" with ten emergency services is ready at each guard for the first march. This consists of a command vehicle , manned by the operations control service and a command assistant , an emergency fire fighting group vehicle HLF20 with a relay crew (six men) and a turntable ladder DLK 23/12 with two crew members. With the "2-vehicle concept", the short fire-fighting train is usually deployed on its own, for example in objects with no particular personal risk, in its deployment area. Only in the case of larger deployments or the corresponding deployment keywords is the second identical rescue vehicle of the other fire station also alarmed, whereby the (extended) fire brigade with a strength of 16 officers is reached.
In addition to the personnel for the fire-fighting train, the crew for the special vehicles are also present at each station, as well as the personnel for the control center at fire station 1. The minimum strength is 1:16 on the fire station and 2:15 on the fire station.
Fireboat
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After the former fire brigade of the Mainz fire brigade had to be replaced in 1991 due to deficiencies in the float, contracts were concluded between Mainz and Wiesbaden in 1995 , according to which the Mainz professional fire brigade was allowed to use the fire boat, which had previously been operated by the Wiesbaden fire brigade alone . Since then, operating costs have been shared equally between both cities. The boat Branddirektor FA Schneider is a former river ferry Mannheim 59 of the Bundeswehr and is 27.60 m long, 7.20 m wide and 6.40 m high. Two centrifugal fire pumps with a delivery rate of 12 m³ / min each at 8 bar output pressure are installed on the boat, with which, among other things, two foam water cannons can be operated on the fore and aft deck with a maximum output of 3.5 m³ / min. In addition, water can be discharged via ten B connections or brought directly to the scene of the fire via two rapid attack lines 80 m in length. A tank with a capacity of 24 m³ can also be used to hold hazardous substances.
The fire-fighting boat is manned every month by the two fire departments involved and is located either in the Mainz customs port or in the Wiesbaden Schierstein port . The Mainz crew is provided by fire station 2.
Fire department control center
The fire brigade control center is located in fire station 1. All emergency calls come in here via the number 112. From here, two officials alert the fire brigade units of the city of Mainz, the districts of Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms . The operations of the professional and voluntary fire brigade Mainz are coordinated directly from here. The police and the ambulance service can also be contacted from here.
Civil protection
Since April 1, 2015, the then subject area of the Legal and Public Order Office has been assigned to the fire brigade as the sixth and new department.
One of the main tasks of civil protection is the planning of measures to protect people, property and the environment in the event of a disaster or major disaster. The precautions include a. the provision of the necessary disaster control units, the support in vehicle and material procurement, the creation and updating of operational and emergency plans and the maintenance of a siren network. At the moment, more than 450 volunteers in Mainz are doing valuable work in the field of disaster relief. The helpers can use over 50 vehicles from the federal government, the city of Mainz or other medical and sanitary aid organizations to bring the necessary personnel and material to the site.
The Civil Protection Department is currently located at Kreyssstrasse 46 in Mainz. In the near future, however, a move to fire station 1 in Mainz-Bretzenheim is planned.
Volunteer firefighter
A total of 11 volunteer fire brigades are active in addition to the professional fire brigade. There is one fire station each in Bretzenheim , Drais , Ebersheim , Finthen , Gonsenheim , Hechtsheim , Laubenheim , Marienborn , Mombach , Weisenau and in the city center . These departments have generally have different erase and crew transport vehicles and rescue vehicles and special vehicles of the civil protection .
Youth fire brigade
The youth fire department consists of 11 groups with around 180 young people and children.
Company and plant fire departments
The companies Schott AG , Wepa Papierfabrik , Prefere Paraform and Werner & Mertz have their own fire brigades in the Mainz industrial area in Neustadt and in Mombach . Regular exercises that take place together strengthen communication between the plant fire departments and the local units.
See also
literature
- Carl Weiser: The German fire brigade: manual for the entire fire extinguishing system . Wirth publishing house, Mainz 1855 ( dilibri )
Web links
- Website of the Mainz fire brigade
- Information from the city of Mainz on the professional fire brigade
- Member fire departments. City Association of Fire Brigades Mainz
- Kirsten Strasser: After three years of construction, the new station of the Mainz fire brigade will open on Monday . Allgemeine-zeitung.de, April 26, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the fire brigade in Old Austria # Austrian fire brigades in the German fire brigade committee
- ↑ "Investing in our security" - New fire station in Mainz officially opened . Rhein Main publishing group , April 28, 2014
- ↑ Fire Brigade Mainz: Joint fire boat of the professional fire brigades Mainz and Wiesbaden
Professional fire brigades: Ludwigshafen | Kaiserslautern | Koblenz | Mainz | Trier | Worms
Voluntary fire brigades with full-time employees: Frankenthal | Neuwied | Pirmasens | Speyer
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 44.2 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 6.7" E