District fire department
Under county fire department rescue (KFB) to understand in Germany on locally deployable units of the fire brigades, the namesake Direction as regularly association strength have (standby power).
General
District fire brigades are always deployed when the locally responsible fire brigade is not able to cope with the operation on their own or when it is an operation that requires special equipment. This can be, for example, major fires or dangerous goods or ABC operations . Since the legislative competence for the fire brigade in Germany is a national matter, there is no uniform designation for units in Germany that provide help within and outside of their own district in the event of major incidents, special tasks and in the event of a disaster. Most federal states, however, have passed laws and ordinances for their national territory which oblige the districts to set up such units.
The district fire brigade readiness system has two major advantages:
- It allows other emergency services to be alerted in a targeted and at the same time large-scale manner and enables the fire brigades located directly around the scene to have staff available to be able to process possible further operations,
- Not every fire brigade has to be equipped for special tasks, as the few fire brigades that are equipped with the material are available for the entire district.
For these two advantages, a longer time between the alarm and arrival at the mission is accepted.
The KFB is led by the district readiness leader . The trains with specialist groups integrated into the KFB are tactically independent and are led by train drivers . Such moves can be:
- Specialist train water pumping
- Water transport specialist train
- Telecommunication train or other information and communication units
- Hazardous goods train or goods train or ABC train
- Logistics and supply train
- Equipment train
As already mentioned, the district fire services can also have other names:
- Fire protection unit (Brandenburg)
- Aid contingent (Bavaria, if they are provided by fire brigades)
- Units of the specialist services (Saxony-Anhalt; see also below)
Such units may have different strengths in some countries and be provided by authorities and organizations other than the fire brigade.
Situation in Saxony-Anhalt
With the disaster control decree of January 24, 2011, the district fire brigade readiness in Saxony-Anhalt was officially dissolved. The units of were in their place civil protection specialist services in service provided. According to Section 3, Paragraph 2, No. 3 of the LSA Fire Protection Act, the districts are obliged to set up fire-fighting units for special operations. However, it is not clear which units or how these units are to be set up. In practice it looks like the units exist under the Disaster Protection Act. Extra units according to the Fire Protection Act are not set up, but the units according to the Disaster Protection Act are also used.
See also
- Disaster Relief Service in Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cross-border disaster relief ( memento of the original from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bavarian Fire Brigade Association, accessed on December 8, 2013
- ↑ Aid quotas, fire watch ( memento of the original from December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 8, 2013
- ↑ a b Decree on disaster control (circular of the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt of January 24, 2011) ( Memento of the original of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
