Community fire department

Under community fire brigade (and public fire brigade) is understood in Germany:

Voluntary fire brigades of a municipality
Professional fire departments of a municipality
Compulsory fire brigades

Fire brigades are municipal institutions, and each municipality must ensure that they are set up and maintained. There is no uniform national legal text on this, but the regulations in the country-specific fire protection laws are very similar. Normally the "top firefighter" of a municipality is always the mayor, but usually a person commissioned by him for this (city fire chief, fire department director, etc.).

The municipal fire brigades are opposed to the private (non-public) fire brigades (plant fire brigade and company fire brigade ).

Individual evidence

^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Development of fire protection . In: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Obertiefenbach e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of the Obertiefenbach volunteer fire brigade . Reference 2005, ISBN 978-3-926262-03-5 , pp. 114-119 .

[1] Franz-Josef Sehr : Development of fire protection . In: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Obertiefenbach e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of the Obertiefenbach volunteer fire brigade . Reference 2005, ISBN 978-3-926262-03-5 , pp. 114-119 .