Dr. Christoph Weltecke Vice president German Fire Services 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 firefighters nationwide 30,500 professional firefighters
60,000 ready for nationwide operations in eight hours Operations Classification
(without ambulance 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- Fire Station 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 Berlin 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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