Mine rescue team

Mine fighters on duty in Neurode 1930

Breathing apparatus for the mine rescue team

Historic equipment base for the mine rescue service

The mine rescue service is an aid organization whose task it is to help with mine accidents . They are attached to the mines and represent a type of plant fire brigade .

Her responsibilities include the rescue and salvage abortive miners underground, fighting mine fires and the preservation of property.

Furnishing

The main focus is on respiratory protection . Special regeneration devices that are independent of ambient air are used here.

Various devices, some of which are still in use today, were developed for the rescue.

• The grinding basket , similar to today fire brigades to be found grinding basket stretcher
• The Dahlbusch bomb for transport through narrow emergency holes.

Germany

The mine rescue services are trained, advised and monitored by the employers' liability insurance association for the raw materials and chemical industry ( main offices for mine rescue ). The central mine rescue service of the raw materials and chemical industry trade association is based in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in Lower Saxony .

The RAG mine rescue team still had a total of 535 members at the beginning of 2018: at the headquarters in Herne , at the locations of the two mines and in Saarland , where the last mine stopped mining in 2012. New military men are no longer trained in the five-year training.

Awards

Employees of mine rescue teams with special merits to the needs of the mine rescue team can use the endowed by the Federal President of Honor Badge mine rescue honors. The award is given both in recognition of many years of active and exemplary work in the mine services (15 years of service for the silver level, 20 years of service for the gold level) and for individual rescue activities.

literature

• Walter Bischoff among others: The small mining dictionary . Ed .: Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse . 3. Edition. Glückauf Verlag, Essen 1981, ISBN 3-7739-0248-4 .
• Walter Hermülheim among other things: Manual for the mine rescue system in hard coal mining . Ed .: Deutsche Steinkohle AG, headquarters for mine rescue services. VGE, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7739-1365-4 .

Web links

Commons : Mine Rescue and Underground Rescue  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The history of the former Prosper professional mine rescue service
• The Central Mine Rescue Service of the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry Employers' Liability Insurance Association
• German committee for mine rescue
• The mine rescue and gas protection system in the GDR from 1949 to 1990 and in the five new federal states from 1990–2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ready to go until the end: The mine rescue team is practicing the emergency WAZ -Online, article from September 15, 2018.
2. ↑ Decree on the Foundation of the Mine Rescue Decoration from 1953 (PDF; 23 kB).
3. ↑ Award of the mine defense symbol by the Federal President. Retrieved December 27, 2013 .