Solingen fire brigade

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Solingen fire brigade
Solingen coat of arms Office of the City of Solingen
Fire and rescue station I
Fire and rescue station I
Professional fire brigade
Founding year: 1947
Locations: 3 FuRW , 1 RW
Employee: 214 (200 civil servants in the fire service, 14 civil servants and employees in administration)
Vehicles: 70
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year: 1863
Departments: 10
Active members: 262
Vehicles: 35
Youth fire brigade
Founding year: 1974
Groups: 7th
Members: 120
Vehicles: 2
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The Solingen fire department consists of a professional fire department and a volunteer fire department . It is run as Stadtdienst 37.

history

The beginning of fire fighting in Solingen

In 1840, three departments of a voluntary fire corps were set up by the Solingen rifle club. These first units operated without their own joint leadership, as this was prohibited by the mayor at the time. Instead, the Brandcorps was subordinated to the state mandatory Brandcorps. On November 24, 1863, the Solingen Turner formed a voluntary fire fighting and rescue company that existed alongside the fire corps. This coexistence was abolished by the fire extinguishing regulations of 1871 by Mayor Gustav van Meenen with the formation of the city volunteer fire brigade Solingen. As early as 1897, the building commission of the city of Solingen determined that there was no professional fire brigade. For cost reasons, the establishment of a professional fire brigade was repeatedly rejected in the following decades.

After the city union in 1929, the new city ​​of Solingen had 30 fire engines with over 1,000 firefighters. Despite an expert opinion obtained, the city of Solingen did not follow the recommendations to set up a professional fire brigade. With a test alarm initiated by the provincial government in 1935 to check the performance, the volunteer fire brigade was certified to fully meet the requirements. Even after the changes to the fire extinguishing laws and decrees in 1933 and 1942, no professional fire brigade was founded, since since 1934 the volunteer fire brigade had been integrated into the air protection and the security and auxiliary service as air protection police. However, as early as 1934, twelve full-time firefighters had been taken on in the city service. The largest deployment in the history of the Solingen fire brigade was in connection with the air raids on Solingen in 1944 . Solingen's old town was completely destroyed in an air raid on November 4th and 5th, 1944. A large conflagration subsequently destroyed most of the undamaged buildings in the area.

Post-war period and establishment of a professional fire brigade

With the end of the Second World War in Solingen, an emergency fire service with 80 firefighters, who were recruited as civil servants , was set up on April 19, 1945 by order of the American military government . The equipment and fire stations were taken over by the air raid police. The previous head of the fire brigade emergency service, Paul Hammesfahr, was appointed fire council by Oberstadtdirektor Berting on March 22, 1946 and was entrusted with setting up a professional fire brigade. The former fire stations of the volunteer fire brigade from pre-war times on Katternberger Strasse (Solingen- Mitte ), Brunnenstrasse (Solingen- Ohligs ) and Raffaelstrasse (Solingen- Wald ) were planned as fire stations, each with two extinguishing groups and special functions for special vehicles and the rescue service . In addition, nine fire fighting groups of the volunteer fire brigade, each with 28 firefighters and five plant fire brigades, were approved. Due to the topography of Solingen with the lack of traffic connections between the ridges, a special regulation was approved by the district government with the deployment of three guards in groups, which is still in force today. After Fire Councilor Hammesfahr was dismissed without notice in August 1946 as a result of a denazification process (with complete rehabilitation in 1949), fire engineer Fritz Schummel from Wuppertal was appointed fire officer and head of the professional fire department on March 1, 1947. The founding date of the professional fire brigade is September 10, 1947, when the fire brigade emergency service was dissolved and the professional fire brigade with 76 fire brigade officials was decided by the main committee of the city of Solingen.

In the years that followed, the fire stations on Katternberger Strasse and in Ohligs were structurally rebuilt for the needs of a professional fire brigade with guard and rest rooms and the necessary workshops. In the mid-1960s, fire station III (forest) was relocated to the newly constructed building - the first fire station after the end of the war - on Frankfurter Damm. In 1966, a respiratory protection training course was put into service at Fire Station III . In addition to the buildings, the vehicle fleet has been continuously modernized and expanded. The expansion of radio communication for vehicle and emergency station radio was also pushed ahead.

In November 1974, fire director Manfred Liene succeeded Schummel, who had retired. With the regional reform in 1975 , the city of Burg an der Wupper was integrated into the city of Solingen. The Burg volunteer fire brigade thus became extinguishing group 8 of the Solingen volunteer fire brigade. In the 1980s, Wachen I (Solingen) and II (Ohligs) were expanded to include new vehicle hangars for large vehicles and relaxation rooms. In 1987 the women's group of the volunteer fire brigade was founded. On April 22nd, 1989, the largest fire in Solingen's post-war history occurred at the Vogelsang school center . On April 1, 1991, the chief fire director Frank-Michael Fischer took up his post as the successor to BD Liene. In 1992, the first swap bodies and the associated roll-off containers were put into service by the fire department. The assassination attempt in Solingen on May 29, 1993 was a decisive event for the Solingen fire brigade and one of its most important missions since the post-war period .

Since the mid-2000s, the Solingen fire brigade has formed the readiness 5 of the Düsseldorf administrative district together with forces from the Wuppertal and Remscheid fire brigades .

Since March 12, 2007, the Solingen and Wuppertal fire brigades have been operating a joint control center at the location of the main fire station in Wuppertal. On April 9, 2016 Frank-Michael Fischer was officially retired. Since then, his successor as head of the Solingen fire brigade has been the chief fire director Ottmar Müller.

Professional fire brigade

Sleeve badge of the Solingen professional fire brigade

The Solingen professional fire brigade is a medium-sized professional fire brigade in North Rhine-Westphalia with a staff of around 200 fire brigade members . It is divided into the five departments 37-1 (emergency service), 37-2 (technical services), 37-3 (preventive fire protection), 37-4 (general administration) and 37-5 (rescue service).

Locations

The Solingen professional fire brigade includes three fire and rescue stations (FuRW) and one rescue station (RW) at the Solingen Clinic.

In September 2017, the city of Solingen published the “Location Concept Professional Fire Brigade Solingen 2030”. It is planned to gradually demolish the existing guards and to replace them with new buildings at the same locations. The total investment is estimated at 59 million euros. The first measures are to begin in 2020 with the demolition of Fire and Rescue Station I.

  • Fire and rescue station I

The fire and rescue station I on Katternberger Strasse is the main station of the Solingen professional fire brigade. The city service management and the specialist departments are housed here. The building also houses the car workshop, the hose workshop, the radio and electrical workshop and the clothing store. There are ten security posts, eight in fire protection and two in the rescue service . Another two functions of the command service are located at Wache 1.

The eight fire protection functions are permanently occupied by an emergency fire fighting group vehicle 20 (short: HLF 20) and a turntable ladder ( DLK 23-12 ) or, if necessary, a tank fire engine ( TLF 4000 ). In the rescue service, an ambulance (RTW) is manned by the Solingen fire brigade. The command service occupies a command vehicle ( ELW 1 ).

Other ambulances are manned by the German Red Cross .

  • Fire and rescue station II
FuRW II

The fire and rescue station II is located on Brunnenstrasse in the Ohligs district. The bookbinding, shoemaking and locksmith's shop are located there. There are ten security posts, eight in fire protection and two in the rescue service. The two functional positions in fire protection are permanently occupied by an HLF 20 and a DLK 23-12. In the rescue service, an ambulance is manned by the Solingen fire brigade.

  • Fire and rescue station III
FuRW III

The fire and rescue station III is located on Frankfurter Damm in the Wald district. This is where the respiratory protection workshop, the carpenter's shop, the locksmith's shop, the disinfection system for the rescue vehicles and the central garages for the ambulances are housed.

There are twelve security posts, eight in fire protection, two for special vehicles and two in the rescue service. The eight function positions in fire protection are permanently occupied by an HLF 20 and a DLK 23-12 or, if necessary, a TLF 4000. Two function positions are occupied by the rescue vehicle , the fire brigade crane or swap-loader vehicles , depending on the situation . In the rescue service, an ambulance is manned by the Solingen fire brigade.

The inner courtyard of the guard serves as a landing place for air rescue helicopters, as the Solingen Clinic does not have its own landing place.

  • Ambulance clinic

Two emergency medical vehicles ( NEF ) are stationed at the rescue station.

Fire school

In the building of fire and rescue station 3, the Solingen fire department maintains the fire department school. The basic course for the professional fire brigade and the location-specific courses for the professional and voluntary fire brigade are offered there. So u. a. the squad man and squad leader training, respiratory protection training and further training, machinist training for fire trucks and turntable ladders, training on the subject of CBRN security and much more. The fire brigade school is also affiliated with the Solingen fire brigade's driving school, which trains students in classes C and CE.

Volunteer firefighter

Sleeve badge of the Solingen volunteer fire brigade

The Solingen volunteer fire brigade consists of a total of ten units with around 260 volunteer fire brigade members. Some of the extinguishing units have their own youth fire brigade .

The volunteer fire brigade is alerted around the clock via a digital alarm receiver (DME) . In accordance with the operational keyword of the alarm and deployment regulations , the voluntary units are either alerted directly together with the professional fire brigade or re-alarmed if the situation or duration of the incident changes. In the case of long-term operations, the orphaned guards of the professional fire brigade are manned by alerting the voluntary units.

The volunteer fire brigade is divided into the following units:

  • Extinguishing unit 1 ( Merscheid - Ohligs )
  • Extinguishing unit 2 (Rupelrath)
  • Extinguishing unit 3 ( Mangenberg )
  • Extinguishing unit 5 (Böckerhof)
  • Extinguishing unit 6 ( Gräfrath )
  • Extinguishing unit 7 (forest)
  • Extinguishing unit 8 ( castle )
  • Environmental protection train
  • Music and supply unit
  • Youth fire brigade (currently seven groups)
  • Information and communication unit (ICT for short, it is made up of parts of the BF and the FF)

Ambulance service

The city of Solingen is responsible for the rescue service in Solingen. In addition to the professional fire brigade, the aid organizations German Red Cross and Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund are involved in the rescue service and patient transport . Both aid organizations each have their own rescue station in the city.

See also

literature

  • Solingen fire brigade: 50 years of Solingen professional fire brigade . Self-published (1997), without ISBN.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online: Archive link ( Memento from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b H. Rosenthal: Solingen. History of a City , Vol. 3
  3. ↑ City of Solingen: Master Plan 2030: The Solingen fire brigade is getting fit for the future. September 15, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Klingenstadt Solingen - Master plan professional fire brigade: next steps. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 38.5 ″  E