Protection and rescue Zurich

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Protection & Rescue Zurich (SRZ) is a service department of the Security Department of the City of Zurich and is the largest civil rescue organization in Switzerland .

Schutz & Rettung Zürich unites professional fire brigade , militia fire brigade , rescue service , civil protection , operations control center 118/144, higher technical college for rescue professions and fire police of the city of Zurich under one roof . Since 2008, the emergency services at Zurich Airport with their areas of operation and services have also been integrated into Zurich Protection & Rescue. In order to carry out the various tasks of “protecting and rescuing”, this service department takes care of the coordination of the various services in the field of public prevention, deployment coordination, intervention and aftercare of emergency situations. Thus the staff of the entire area of ​​responsibility of the disaster control and the emergency services have been united under one political responsibility. In 2015, the rescue service and the fire brigade from Schutz & Rettung carried out over 40,000 missions in their areas of operation.

history

In 1893 the «Medical Corps of the City of Zurich» was founded. The corps, which consisted of 14 people and was expanded to 25 paramedics by 1910, was responsible for food control, disinfection, sanitary house controls and ambulance transports and was equipped with eight ambulance and mortuary cabs. In 1920 the first petrol-powered ambulances replaced the electrically powered models that had been used up until then. By 1939, the Zurich medical service had grown to 31 medical men, the majority of whom, however, were subject to mobilization as a result of the Second World War. This year she took over the medical service for the Swiss National Exhibition . By 1965 the workforce could be increased to 67. From 1971 to 1981, the Zurich medical service operated the cardiomobile, the concept of a mobile, cardiologically oriented intensive care unit , which was abandoned in favor of the emergency doctor system. In 1994 it had 84 trained paramedics, 13 ambulances and 4 ambulances.

On August 27, 1999, the Zurich city council decided on a “minor administrative reorganization” (KLEVER). Within this reorganization, a project envisaged the bundling of all protection and rescue services. For this purpose, civil protection, the fire brigade , the district command and the medical services within the police department were combined into a new service department.

On October 1, 2000, the medical services were finally transferred to the police department and on January 1, 2001, the "Protection & Rescue" department was established.

Fire brigade and medical organization are thus perceived as a public task under the control of the responsible parliament and not partially or fully privatized as in some other cities. On January 1, 2008, the professional fire brigade, the operations control center and the rescue service of Flughafen Zürich AG were also incorporated into this structure.

In order to map the diverse tasks and assignments of the various blue light organizations within the department, the police department was renamed the security department on October 1, 2016.

organization

In terms of numbers, the Zurich Fire Department forms the backbone of the overall organization. This applies to both the more than 220 employees of the professional fire brigade and the employees of the volunteer fire brigades . In everyday life, however, in addition to technical assistance, ambulance and rescue transports predominate in Zurich, as in all large cities, in the total number of requested operations.

The bundling ensures that the less frequently required tasks, such as disaster control or disease prevention, are handled professionally by trained staff and made easier in terms of organization.

The organizational chart includes the fire police, Rohwiesen training center, occupational safety and health protection, higher technical college for rescue professions, operations coordination, operations control center, professional fire brigade, volunteer fire brigade City of Zurich, rescue service, civil protection (civil protection organization ZSO) and the civil protection office (ZSSt), the military officers of the city of Zurich (formerly head of the section ), Emergency pastoral care of the canton of Zurich and the department for protective structures.

Ambulance service

Ambulance (RTW)

The rescue service of Schutz & Rettung Zürich performed over 35,600 missions in 2015. In addition to the city ​​of Zurich and Zurich Airport, the area of ​​operation also includes 17 other communities with around 520,000 inhabitants. The rescue service consists of five service groups with a total of over 120 diploma. Paramedics HF and other employees. It is deployed from four locations (Wache Zentrum, Wache Triemli, Wache Flughafen and the interim locations at Zollikerberg Hospital and on Neubrunnenstrasse in Zurich-Seebach). More than 40 vehicles, mostly ambulances (RTW) Mercedes Sprinter 519 CDI or emergency ambulances ( EA) Mercedes Sprinter 315 CDI as well as special vehicles for major events are available to the rescue service protection & rescue .

Professional fire brigade

The professional fire brigade in action
Airfield fire engine (FLF) of the professional fire brigade

The municipal fire brigade in Zurich was set up on March 1, 1922 on a trial basis under the name of Brandwache in the Wollenhof property in the old town . The transfer to a permanent institution took place in 1928 by a majority vote of the town's voters. With the second incorporation in 1934, the city and the demands on the fire watch grew. The new Manesse guard in the Wiedikon district , which was oversized for the time , was moved into on July 6, 1937. The long journey to the quarters in the Glatttal led to the planning of a second guard in the north of the city in the 1960s, while the Manesse guard had to be expanded on the courtyard side with additional garage extensions. In 1976 the term fire watch was replaced by professional fire brigade . The "Wache Hirschwiesen" project was put to the vote on May 20, 1984 and rejected by the voters - more than 20 years of planning were thus in vain. As a makeshift, the «Pikett Glattal» militia formation continued to exist.

The cantonal "Law on the Fire Police and Fire Brigade" of September 24, 1978 regulates fire-fighting in the Canton of Zurich. As a supervisory body responsible for the organization of fire protection is the building insurance of the Canton of Zurich (GVZ), an independent institution under cantonal public law. The GVZ, in agreement with the cities of Zurich and Winterthur , allows them to maintain a professional fire brigade. The third professional fire brigade in the canton of Zurich , officially referred to as the professional fire brigade Zurich Airport, is set out in the “Ordinance on the Fire Brigade” of December 14, 1994, as the professional fire brigade maintained by Zurich Airport .

In 2007, the city of Zurich and Zurich Airport, which has been operated by the mixed-economy Flughafen Zürich AG since 2000, agreed to integrate the rescue services at the airport (professional fire brigade, medical and operations center) into the city's protection and rescue service as of January 1, 2008 . With the integration of the airport base, the city can dispense with the construction of its own "base north" for professional fire brigade and medical services.

The Glattal peak dissolved on December 31, 2008 after more than seven decades. In terms of structure, it was still assigned to a militia fire brigade . The members of this standby were divided into four companies. Weekend shifts were changed every four weeks. As the only fire brigade unit made up of volunteers, the Glattal stand-by went to the fire brigade in front of the professional fire brigade by the end of 2007, as the stand-by could be faster than the professional fire brigade at fires in the north of Zurich due to the length of the approach. With the amalgamation of the two professional fire brigades at the airport (north guard) and the city of Zurich (south guard), a new professional unit from the north guard was able to deploy a fire brigade to events from January 1, 2008.

Fire in the Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten

Fire in the Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten

On November 14, 2007 around 11:30 p.m., a fire broke out in the Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten on Limmatquai . During the extinguishing work, the burning attic collapsed and - for the first time in the history of the professional fire brigade - a fireman was killed. Seven others were injured, some seriously.

Militia fire brigade

Structuring of the units from January 1, 2016

Fire departments:

Special department:

  • Medical company
  • Pioneer company
  • Transport company

Regional base in Zurich

The “Fire Brigade 2000” organizational concept of the building insurance of the Canton of Zurich (GVZ) defines twelve regional bases and three cantonal bases for the prevention of damage in the event of major events. The Zurich regional base includes the city of Zurich and other communities at the western end of the lake and is managed by the city fire brigade commander.

Operations control center (emergency number 144/118)

Emergency calls 144 (ambulance service) and 118 (fire brigade) from several cantons are answered in the control center of Schutz & Rettung Zürich and the emergency vehicles are dispatched

The control center of Schutz & Rettung Zurich has been located at Zurich Airport since November 2012. She answers the fire department emergency number 118 for the canton of Zurich and the emergency service number 144 for the cantons of Zurich, Schwyz, Schaffhausen and Zug. The operations control center ensures that the right resources get to the scene at the right time. During the mission, she supports the on-site operations manager and coordinates the resources of the fire brigade and rescue service. In 2015, over 145,000 emergency calls were received and processed.

See also

Web links

Commons : Protection and Rescue Zurich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Security Department: Over 145,000 emergency calls processed by Zurich Protection & Rescue. Media releases. In: stadt-zuerich.ch. January 21, 2016, accessed on March 26, 2014 (2015 deployment statistics).
  2. ↑ Experiences with a mobile intensive care station (Kardiomobil) after 1 year's test operation in Zurich. In: Swiss Medical Weekly . February 14, 1976, 106 (7): 200-3, PMID 1251174 .
  3. ^ City of Zurich, Police Department: Chronicle of the Zurich Rescue Service. In: stadt-zuerich.ch. Retrieved September 7, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Internet portal of the city of Zurich, media release from the city council of May 31, 2000: Small administrative reorganization will start in autumn. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 13, 2016 ; Retrieved September 7, 2011 .
  5. ↑ «There was only one possible partner». In: NZZ Online . December 14, 2007, accessed on September 7, 2011 (project manager Beat A. Käch in conversation with editor Michael Baumann).
  6. ↑ (cn.): City of Zurich vote: Police - is now called the Security Department . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 22, 2015, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed September 19, 2016]).
  7. ↑ a b Security Department: City of Zurich, Protection & Rescue: Rescue service area. In: stadt-zuerich.ch. Retrieved March 26, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Law on the fire police and fire services (861.1).
  9. ↑ Ordinance on the fire brigade (861.2).
  10. ^ City of Zurich: May 10, 2007: Merger of the two largest rescue organizations in Switzerland. Police Department of the City of Zurich ( Memento from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: stadt-zuerich.ch (declaration on the merger of the city of Zurich and the airport fire brigade of May 10, 2007).
  11. ↑ A black day for the Zurich fire brigade. In: NZZ. November 16, 2007, accessed September 7, 2011 .
  12. ^ City of Zurich, Protection & Rescue: Mission Statistics 2015. stadt-zuerich.ch, accessed on November 16, 2016 .