Extinguishing district

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In Saarland , the volunteer fire brigade of a city or municipality is divided into fire fighting districts (LB) . Each extinguishing district is assigned a specific disengagement area within the municipality; as a rule, each district of the municipality with its own fire brigade forms an extinguishing district. In accordance with Section 1 (1) of the Fire Protection Organization Ordinance, at least 3 extinguishing districts can again be combined into one extinguishing section. The division into extinguishing districts and extinguishing sections is regulated by the city or municipality in a fire protection statute. According to § 2 Paragraph 2 of the Fire Protection Organization Ordinance, each extinguishing district must consist of at least three squadrons.

The superior of the members of a deletion district is the extinguishing district leader , the superior of the members of a deletion section is the extinguishing section leader. § 9 I 2 i. V. m. Section 8 (1) sentence 2 of the aforementioned ordinance stipulates that the discharge section leaders are elected by the active members of the discharge section for a period of six years. The same applies, according to Section 10, Paragraph 1, Clause 2, to the discharge district leaders. According to §§ 9f. again subordinated to the respective military leader of the community.

There are also extinguishing districts in other federal states, for example in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia , but the term extinguishing district is not regulated by law there. As a rule, several local volunteer fire brigades or fire engines are combined to form a fire fighting area or the assigned deployment area is called the fire fighting area.

history

In the first half of the 19th century, before volunteer fire brigades were established, many municipalities in Germany formed a fire fighting district. When a fire broke out, certain residents with harnessed horses had to fetch the fire engine stationed in their own town or in one of the neighboring towns . But this was also requested by neighboring fire fighting districts for reinforcement.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Limburg-Weilburg 1993, p. 151-153 .