Pforzheim fire brigade

Pforzheim fire brigade
Office of the City of Pforzheim
Professional fire brigade
Founding year:	1975
Locations:	1
Employee:	89
Vehicles:	18th
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year:	June 7, 1858
Departments:	8th
Active members:	353
Vehicles:	50
Youth fire brigade
Founding year:	1968
Groups:	8th
Members:	120
www.feuerwehr-pforzheim.de

The tasks of defensive fire protection and assistance are ensured in Pforzheim by a professional fire brigade and eight volunteer fire brigades .

history

The Pforzheim fire brigade was founded on June 7th, 1858, the first in command was Adolf Kiehnle.

The incorporation of the surrounding communities not only made the city bigger, but also the fire department. In 1905 the Brötzingen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1871, became a division of the Pforzheim volunteer fire brigade. 100 years after being taken over by the Pforzheim Volunteer Fire Brigade, the Brötzingen department was merged with the Weststadt department to form a new Brötzingen / Weststadt department. In 1913 the fire brigade of the village of Dillweißstein, founded in 1880, became a further department of the Pforzheim volunteer fire brigade. Until 1975, the city's fire department was a volunteer fire department (FF). At times, however, there were full-time workers from the 1950s. Due to the incorporation as a result of the district reform , the city of Pforzheim grew to over 100,000 inhabitants, which made it necessary to set up a professional fire department (BF) according to the fire brigade law of the state of Baden-Württemberg . In the years after 1970, the volunteer fire brigade grew by further departments due to further incorporation of localities. In 1971 the Würm volunteer fire brigade, the Hohenwart volunteer fire brigade in 1973, the Büchenbronn and Huchenfeld volunteer fire brigades in 1974 and the Eutingen volunteer fire brigade in 1975 were added as new departments.

organization

The fire brigade is located as specialist office 37 of the city of Pforzheim in Department IV. The professional fire brigade has 85 officers from the fire service. The fire department also has 10 civilian employees (disaster control, technical service and administration). The departments of the volunteer fire brigade have around 330 volunteers in eight departments.

The main fire station is on the Enz in Habermehlstrasse 77 (next to the measuring station). The building of the main fire station cannot be overlooked by the approximately 25 meter high drying tower for the hoses.

The fire brigade is headed by the chief officer and fire brigade commander and chief fire director Sebastian Fischer. The deputy commanders are Chief Fire Officer Guido Lobermann, Fire Chief Sonja Störzbach and Chief Fire Chief Gerd Hartmann (volunteer fire brigade). The youth fire brigade is part of the volunteer fire brigade. City youth fire brigade is Markus Klittich.

Subject areas and departments

Office 37 - Fire Brigade and Civil Protection - is responsible for product groups 1260 (fire protection) and 1280 (disaster control) of the new municipal budget law. Internally, the office is divided into three departments with seven subject areas:

Department 37/01

The department is responsible for general administration with all personnel and budget matters including cost and performance accounting.

Department 37/1 emergency service

Subject 37/11 Security

The department is essentially responsible for the operation of the security departments and voluntary departments, the creation of standard deployment rules and controlling.

Subject 37/12 Education and training

In addition to the initial and further training of the company's own staff, psychosocial support and psychosocial emergency care for fire brigade members as well as media design are also part of this subject's area of ​​responsibility. The Pforzheim fire brigade is also a recognized first aid and respiratory protection training center.

Subject 37/13 IuK, energy technology

Their tasks are procurement, maintenance and developments in the areas of information and communication technology as well as electrical engineering and energy supply for the fire brigade.

Subject 37/14 Integrated control center

The integrated control center Pforzheim-Enzkreis is operated jointly with the DRK district association and the Enzkreis district office.

Department 2 Central Services

Subject area 37/21 Preventive hazard defense

Expert reports in the field of fire protection are prepared here, and expert advice and construction supervision for special properties are carried out. Fire prevention shows are held together with the building law office. Furthermore, the fire alarm systems, hazard alarm, extinguishing and smoke extraction systems are supervised here. In addition, this subject area offers and conducts fire protection education for children and schoolchildren as well as fire protection instruction for companies and companies.

Subject 37/22 Technology / Buildings

The department is responsible for the procurement, maintenance, repair and testing of the fire-fighting equipment of the vehicles and their own, protective clothing as well as their cleaning in our own washing center, hygiene and occupational safety and building maintenance.

Subject 37/23 Disaster control / preparation for operations

The task of the department is, among other things, civil and civil protection, resource and personnel management in disaster control and the creation of special action plans and fire brigade plans.

Professional fire brigade

The professional fire brigade is divided into the guard departments A, B and C.

Guard department A

Shift duty with three shift groups (A10 / A20 / A30) with 18 men each. These include a head of the guard department, a deputy and 16 men in universal positions, four of which are also used as dispatchers for the integrated control center. When they are not alerted, these officials work in the workshops of the main fire station, mostly in the area of ​​their learned profession. They perform their duty in a fixed rhythm of day duty (7:30 am to 4:30 pm), night duty (4:30 pm to 7:30 am) and 24-hour duty (7:30 am to 7:30 am). This rhythm is designed as follows:

• 1st week: Monday - Thursday day shift
• 2nd week: Monday and Wednesday night shift, Friday and Sunday 24-hour shift
• 3rd week: Tuesday and Thursday night shift, Saturday 24-hour shift

Guard department B

Main dispatchers / situation managers of the fire brigade control center. They alternate between day (7:30 am to 6:30 pm) and night (6:30 pm to 7:30 am) on duty. They travel six weeks per year on the fire engine, rescue train or dangerous goods train.

Guard Department C

The guard department C provides the day duty.

Guard department C10

The watch department C10 provides the A-Dienst (formerly: Commander of the duty) . A civil servant of the higher fire brigade service provides 24 hours on-call duty from the office or from home after the end of working hours and is alerted at certain alarm levels or key words. During their service time they work as heads of the specialist office or as department heads.

Guard department C20

The security department C20 is the B-Dienst group (formerly: Einsatzleiter vom Dienst) group. These are officials of the higher fire service. One of these officers is on duty at the main fire station for 24 hours and drives to the scene of operations as the first responsible operations manager. When there is no alarm, you work as a department manager or deputy department manager.

Guard department C30

The security department C30 are officials of the day service and perform their duty as clerks or workshop managers in order to give continuity to their assigned activities. They are officials of the upper and the middle fire service. A second rescue vehicle and certain special functions are manned by the day-to-day service from Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., as the daily availability of the volunteer fire brigade is very limited during this time.

Integrated control center

The city of Pforzheim operates together with the Enzkreis and the German Red Cross Kreisverband Pforzheim e. V. an integrated control center for the fire brigade, disaster control and rescue service departments. Here, two officers from the middle fire service and two rescue assistants from the DRK are on duty around the clock. In addition to the mission-related activities, they also take on service activities for third parties, so the municipal utility's fault reporting center and the service number of the health insurance company emergency service appear in the control center after work. In July 2010, after decades of negotiations, the way was cleared for the creation of an integrated control center required by law. This started operations in October 2015 in a building belonging to Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH in the Brötzinger Valley.

Voluntary departments

In addition to the professional fire department, there are 8 departments of the volunteer fire department in the city districts and in the city center. They are headed by a department commander elected from among the team. These departments are initially responsible for their extinguishing district and act as a supplement to the unit of the professional fire brigade or handle smaller or duplicate operations on their own responsibility, e.g. B. in major storms. Alerting the volunteers is still dependent on the time and day. During the so-called alarm time A (on weekdays 7:30 am–4:30pm), two rescue vehicles are manned by the professional fire brigade; During the alarm time B (4: 30–7: 30 a.m. and Sundays) the second fire engine is provided by the volunteer fire brigade. Only in the districts of Hohenwart , Huchenfeld and areas of Eutingen is the local department of the volunteer fire brigade always alerted to ensure the relief deadline. In addition, the departments are assigned special tasks and special vehicles, e.g. B. the Dillweisestein department is responsible for catering / logistics and supplies, the Eutingen department is responsible for the decontamination of people and the Brötzingen - Weststadt department is the city's second turntable ladder. The department numbers are also part of the call names of the vehicles, so Florian Pforzheim 3/21 is a fire truck from the Haidach department . These numbers also correspond to the order in which the departments emerged within the city or in which formerly independent municipal fire brigades were incorporated into the fire department.

2 Brötzingen-Weststadt

The Brötzingen-Weststadt department was created in 2005 from the merger of the formerly independent departments Brötzingen (Dept. 1) and Weststadt (Dept. 2). The Brötzingen department was founded in 1871 and, with the incorporation of Brötzingen in 1905, became part of the Pforzheim volunteer fire department. The department is housed in the main fire station together with the professional fire brigade. The special areas of application of the department are the industrial areas on the Wilferdinger Höhe, the Brötzinger Tal and the Nordstadt. Parts of the federal motorway 8 are also among the areas of application. The equipment in the department consists of 2 HLF 20, 2 MTF , GW-AS, DLK 23/12.

3 Haidach

The Haidach department emerged from the former Oststadt department. After several moves, the department has been using the fire station in Altgefäll since 1999 . Areas of application are the Altgefäll industrial park and the Haidach residential area, which consists of numerous high-rise buildings. In addition, there are extensive forest areas and parts of the Federal Motorway 8. The equipment consists of HLF 20/16, RW1, MTF.

4 Dillweissenstein

This department was founded in 1880 and was incorporated into the Pforzheim volunteer fire brigade in 1913 as part of the incorporation of Dillweißstein. It is housed in the fire station in Dillweißstein and also includes the logistics center of the Pforzheim fire brigade. The catering train is also housed here. The equipment consists of HLF 10, LF 20-KatS, 2 WLF, GW-T 18 t, GW-T 3.5 t, MTF, forklift, AB water, AB foam, 2 AB flatbed, AB-MOGES, AB armor, field kitchen.

5 worms

This department was founded in 1938 and was transferred to the Pforzheim fire brigade in 1971. The areas of application are the Würm district and extensive forest areas. The equipment consists of HLF 10, MTF.

6 Hohenwart

This department was founded in 1948 and was transferred to the Pforzheim fire department in 1973. The areas of application are the Hohenwart district and extensive forest areas. A special feature of this department is that the volunteer fire brigade is also alerted whenever there is an alarm, as this district is further away from the main fire station. The equipment consists of HLF 10, TLF 8/18, MTF.

7 Büchenbronn

The Büchenbronn department was founded in 1906 and incorporated into the Pforzheim volunteer fire department in 1974. The department's areas of activity are the Sonnenhof high-rise estate, the Büchenbronn district and extensive forest areas. The equipment consists of 2 LF 8/6, GW-T, MTF.

8 Huchenfeld

This department was founded in 1868 and, with the incorporation of Huchenfeld in 1974, was integrated into the Pforzheim fire brigade. The Bundeswehr depot in Huchenfeld and the forest areas around the Huchenfeld district are considered special areas of application. The equipment consists of LF 8/6, TLF 8/18, MTF.

9 Eutingen

This department was founded in 1874 and incorporated into the volunteer fire brigade in 1975. This department contains the groups for the decontamination of persons. She is also responsible for a section of the Federal Motorway 8. In order to enable the fire brigade to arrive quickly, this department is also alerted immediately in some areas of the district because the main fire station is too far away. The equipment consists of HLF 20/16, TLF 24/50, GW-Wasserrettung, GW-Dekon P, MTF, fire service bus, trailer, foam water cannon, flood boat on trailer.

Music train

The music train of the Pforzheim fire brigade consists of the Pforzheim minstrel train (1886), Eutingen minstrel train (1919), Büchenbronn minstrel train (1906) and big band / wind orchestra in cooperation with the Dillweissenstein music association. There are 90 members active, 23 of them also on duty.

Youth fire brigade

There are currently 126 members in the youth fire brigades in all departments. Below are the founding years of the individual youth fire departments:

• Dept. 1 Brötzingen 1971 (merged with Dept. 2 in 2005)
• Dept. 2 Brötzingen-Weststadt 1971 (until 2005 as Dept. Weststadt)
• Dept. 3 Haidach 1971
• Dept. 4 Dillweissenstein 1968
• Dept. 5 Würm 1972
• Dept. 6 Hohenwart 1973
• Dept. 7 Büchenbronn (not known)
• Dept. 8 Huchenfeld 1973
• Dept. 9 Eutingen 1972

Commanders

Below are the previous commanders of the Pforzheim fire brigade. The commanders have been employed full-time since Wolfgang Haag took office in 1970.

• 1858–1859 Adolf Kiehnle
• 1859-1896 Lois Franzmann
• 1896–1904 Albert Prestinari
• 1904–1914 Christian Kaeser
• 1914–1922 Carl Ruf
• 1922–1928 Hermann Ziegler
• 1928–1945 Gustav Forschner
• 1945–1957 Friedrich Eberle
• 1957–1970 Friedrich Scheerer
• 1970–1996 Wolfgang Haag
• 1996–2013 Volker Velten
• October 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014 by Ralph Zimmermann
• since February 1, 2014 Sebastian Fischer

Fire brigade newspaper

The bulletin of the city fire brigade association Kübelspritz contains many reports from all departments of the Pforzheim fire brigade.

vehicles

Operations management
2 KdoW
3 ELW 1
1 ELW 2
3 car
rescue vehicles
3 HLF 20
tank fire engines
3 TLF 8/18
1 TLF 24/50 powder
fire fighting group vehicles
4 LF 8/6
3 HLF 10
1 LF 16/12
1 LF 24
1 LF 20-Kats
Aerial rescue
2 DLA (K) 23/12
Setup and equipment trolleys
1 KEF
1 RW 1
1 GW-G (dangerous goods)
4 GW-T (transport)

1 GW-AS (respiratory and radiation protection)
1 GW water rescue with flood boat type 2 on trailer

1 GW tunnel (tunnel construction site Pforzheimer tunnel)

other vehicles
9 MTF
1 Feuerwehrbus (MTF)
1 ABC exploration vehicles
1 truck decontamination P
2 forklift
2 swap body vehicles
Abrollbehälter
1 AB-Rüst
1 AB-Moges (mobile hazardous waste disposal system)
1 AB foam
1 AB-water
2 AB-flatbed

Civil protection

Since January 1, 2008, the disaster control department has been assigned to the Fire Brigade Department. Here it was merged with the existing field of deployment preparation to form field 37/23 and assigned to department 37/2. Before that it was part of the public order office of the city of Pforzheim.

Protective structures

There are several protective structures in the city that are available to the population.

swell

• Anniversary book "150 Years of the Pforzheim Fire Brigade"

Web links

• Website fire department Pforzheim
• Entry in Stadtwiki Pforzheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical annual report of the fire department Pforzheim 2019. (PDF) Pforzheim - fire brigade, Civil Protection and Disaster, accessed on 25 July 2020 . 
2. ↑ Integrated control center. Pforzheim Fire Brigade, accessed on December 29, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Pforzheim fire brigade, Haidach department ( Memento from August 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), http://www.feuerwehr-pforzheim.de , accessed on July 12, 2010
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ http://blog.kohlhammer.de/feuerwehr/fischer-pforzheim/

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 24.2 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 47.6"  E