Emergency unit

The emergency unit was a supraregional special unit of the fire brigades of Bavaria set up for disasters and accidents .

definition

The emergency units had their origins in the post-war period, when many fire brigades in Bavaria only had a small amount of vehicles and equipment and were unable to provide sufficient help in the event of major damage. Therefore, in larger fire brigades, fire brigades and many special vehicles for supra-local operations were combined into emergency units, also called emergency remote readiness . As the name implies, the emergency remote readiness units were set up as a tactical association of size 1 "readiness" .

deployment

There were the following emergency units:

• Upper Bavaria
  • Emergency unit State Fire Brigade School Geretsried - State Reserve
  • Emergency unit in Munich
  • Emergency unit in Ingolstadt
  • Emergency unit Rosenheim
• Lower Bavaria
  • Landshut emergency unit
  • Emergency unit in Straubing
  • Emergency unit Passau
• Upper Palatinate
  • Emergency unit State Fire Brigade School Regensburg - State Reserve
  • Amberg emergency unit
  • Emergency unit Cham
  • Regensburg emergency unit
• Upper Franconia
  • Emergency unit Bamberg
  • Bayreuth emergency unit
  • Emergency unit yard
• Middle Franconia
  • Emergency unit Nuremberg
• Lower Franconia
  • Emergency unit in Würzburg
  • Emergency unit Schweinfurt
• Swabia
  • Emergency unit Augsburg
  • Emergency unit Kempten (Allgäu)

Strength

The emergency units usually consisted of two trains , a command unit with the on-call officer and the respective pool of special vehicles adapted to the damage situation.

Further development

The emergency units were replaced by the aid contingents newly created in Bavaria in 2008 , which were now set up in larger numbers in Bavaria than after various floods, the snow disaster and several forest fires, the Ministry of the Interior saw the need to bundle more forces into a damaged area.

See also

• Fire department in Bavaria
• Civil protection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yearbook 2007 for fire and disaster control in Bavaria, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, 2007