Remscheid fire department

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Remscheid fire department
Remscheid coat of arms Office of the City of Remscheid
Professional fire brigade
Founding year: 1901
Locations: 1 FuRW, 1 RW
Employee: 141 As of 2008
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year: 1828
Departments: 7th
Active members: approx. 220
Youth fire brigade
Founding year: 1979
Groups: 5
Members: 96
Remscheid fire department

The Remscheid fire brigade is an office of the city of Remscheid and consists of the professional fire brigade and the voluntary fire brigade with seven departments. The central station of the professional fire brigade is located in the Remscheid district of Wüstenhagen .

history

At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was an accumulation of fires in Remscheid, which were often caused by arson. In January 1813 an organized extinguishing system in the form of fire regulations was established. There were also efforts to found a fire brigade. The first firefighters were made up of committed craftsmen and police officers, whose superiors were the respective mayors or city councilors. Refusing to fight the fire was sometimes a criminal offense. Extinguishing buckets, fire engines , ladders and fire hooks were purchased.

The Mayor of Remscheid received new fire extinguishing regulations on September 12, 1828. Two fire corps were set up, one of which was responsible for the main town and the other for the surrounding towns. The external brand corps was divided into a company each for the towns of Bliedinghausen, Ehringhausen, Hasten / Feld, Morsbach and Haddenbach. The fire chiefs were elected. In 1838 a driving sprayer was stationed in the Feld district . The Lennep volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1867 and is the oldest volunteer fire brigade in Remscheid. The Remscheid fire brigade emerged from various local fire brigade groups in 1896 and was converted into a professional fire brigade at the beginning of the twentieth century. For this purpose, the extinguishing system was reorganized in December 1901, whereby z. B. the volunteer fire brigades in Remscheid were divided into nine departments. Heinrich Cappel became the first professional firefighter on April 1, 1902.

On December 15, 1933, the transformation into a corporation under public law happened at the same time as it was placed under the police supervisory authority. In 1934 the firefighting districts were also adapted to the local police stations.

In 1979 a youth fire brigade was founded, which on July 5, 1983 was given the status of a public institution as a youth group of the fire brigade by council resolution. In 1985, the BF Remscheid was the first professional fire brigade in Germany to hire a woman for emergency service.

Remscheid professional fire brigade

The new turntable ladder of the Remscheid professional fire brigade with extended articulated arm.

The offices of the Remscheid professional fire brigade were located in the rear part of the town hall until 1989 . The expansion of the personnel security as well as new requirements due to the larger number of sometimes heavier vehicles were the reason for the construction of a new fire station.

Fire station Remscheid

On May 2, 1989, the new fire and rescue station was inaugurated and handed over to its destination. At the time, it was named "Germany's most beautiful fire station" by a trade magazine . In 2010, a total of 149 employees did their work in fire protection , rescue services or administration. The integrated fire and rescue control center has five state-of-the-art dispatching stations with 10 trunk lines and has another command post in an adjoining room for special situations. The three guard departments, each with around 38 professional firefighters, perform their duties according to the Bremen model , i.e. 24/48 hours.

Probably the most extraordinary mission for the Remscheid fire brigade began on December 8, 1988, when an American fighter-bomber pilot lost his orientation in thick fog and crashed north of the city center on Hölterfeld .

Furnishing:

The BF has the following vehicles for fire fighting and technical assistance:

Ambulance service and patient transport

The city of Remscheid is responsible for the rescue service and ambulance transport. For this reason, all members of the middle service of the Remscheid professional fire brigade are trained to become paramedics / emergency paramedics . The rescue service, like fire protection, is provided 24/48 hours. Two emergency medical vehicles (NEF), eight ambulances (RTW) and five ambulances (KTW) are available for this task . The ambulances are currently manned by employees of the DRK and the JUH. In order to maintain a time-critical supply of emergency patients, an external rescue station was opened in the city center in 2002, in which an ambulance is always ready.

Volunteer firefighter

The locations of the volunteer fire brigade in the city are divided as follows:

The extinguishing units form the four fire fighting trains north (FF North with two extinguishing groups), east (FF Lennep and FF Lüttringhausen), west (FF Hasten and FF Morsbach) and south (FF Bergisch Born and FF Lüdorf). Each fire fighting group is equipped with a fire fighting vehicle LF 8/6, LF 10/6 or LF 16/12. One fire fighting group vehicle of each train is additionally equipped for technical assistance ( hydraulic rescue device , lifting bag ), the other for fire fighting ( extension ladder , overpressure ventilator , portable pump ). In addition, each fire fighting group has either a fire fighting vehicle LF 16-TS or a tank fire fighting vehicle TLF 16/24-Tr as a second fire engine . In addition, there are measuring and decontamination vehicles for disaster control, RW 1 rescue vehicle, logistics equipment trolley ( hose trolley ) and a lifeboat. The extinguishing units are used both independently and to support the professional fire brigade, in accordance with the alarm and deployment regulations . The alarm is generally sent train by train on workdays between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The fire-fighting train west is generally alerted together when it comes to an operation in the Morsbach area. There are currently 261 volunteers doing their voluntary service.

Youth fire brigade

  • The Hasten youth fire brigade was founded in 1979 as the first JF.
  • The North Youth Fire Brigade was founded in 1979 as the second JF.
  • The youth fire brigade Lennep was founded in 1992 as the third JF
  • The youth fire brigade Lüttringhausen was founded in 2005 as the fourth JF.
  • The youth fire brigade Lüdorf and Bergisch Born is called "Team Lübo" and was founded in 2014 as the fifth JF.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy of "Chronicle of the Remscheid-Hasten Voluntary Fire Brigade" ( Memento from February 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Network firefighters
  4. ↑ The highest concentration RGA applies here , from December 10, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 2 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 48.1"  E