Dr. Christoph Weltecke Vice president Association FIRE SERVICE IN GERMANY Welcome to Germany Welcome to Germany Fire Service in Germany Legislation

a community obligation

Fire Service is …

regulated by national law

Civil Protection is … federal and state obligation

Fire service in every city and community = 33,000 fire stations in 12.245 cities and communities Fire Service in Germany Classification

Volunteer Brigades (in all smaller cities and communities)

Professional Brigades Industrials Brigades (in cities with more than (in factories with 100.000 inhabitants) high risk potential) Fire service in every city and community 33,000 fire stations in 12.245 cities/communities Provision of Fire Service fire stations / vehicles / protective gear Provision of Fire Service

Cities and communities have the obligation to:

 provide social security for fire fighters (health and accident insurance, pension)

 pay employer for out of service time of their employee during absence caused by fire fighters duty calls Tasks of German Fire Services

Fire-fighting Fire Prevention

Civil Protection

Environment Protection (incl. Hazardous materials protection)

Emergency Medial Rescue

Water Rescue

Technical Intervention Rescue Dogs Fire Service in gemany operational readiness

local

400,000 ready for operation in five minutes

Additionally 200,000 ready for operation in one hour 1,3 million volunteer nationwide 30,500 professional firefighters

60,000 ready for nationwide operations in eight hours Operations Classification

(without service) Operations Help periods

Objectives of the intervention / help periods in Germany

Firefighting: 8 – 12 minutes

Rescue Service: 8 – 12 minutes

in the sense of state law Incident Chan Volunteer Fire Brigade

Citizen

Call Additional Alerting

Emergency Qualified Immediate Drive to Incident Call Center Alerting Meeting in place of Fighting (PSAP) Fire- Incident Activities Computer fighters (changing Added or Clothes Decision Rescue only Support Service volunteer)

Campaigns German Fire Services - Figures

Germany: 357,092 km² 82 Mio. Inhabitants More than 1,3 Mio. fire-fighters in 12.245 cities and 33,000 volunteer fire stations municipalities

240,000 youth fire-fighters

30.500 professional fire-fighters in 33.400 industrial fire-fighters in 106 professional fire brigades 740 industrial brigades Contact

Deutscher Feuerwehrverband e.V. Reinhardtstraße 25 10117 Deutschland (Germany) Telefon (Phone): +49 (0) 30 28 88 48 8-00

Agency of German Fire Service Landesvertretung Hessen Rue Montoyer 21 www.dfv.org 1040 Bruxelles Belgium Thank you for your attention!

Dr. Christoph Weltecke Vizepräsident DFV Vizepräsident Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen Vice president German Fire Service Vice president State Hessen Fire Service

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