World’s first “USAR Light” team in earthquake rescue

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Osnabrück/Geneva, 25 November 2021 - As the first international search and rescue team of the category "Light", the German relief organisation @fire was classified by the United Nations (UN) in...

EU forest fire contingent from NRW reaches Greece

The forest fire contingent launched from North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday to assist with the devastating forest fires in Greece arrived on the Peloponnese peninsula on Tuesday afternoon and will subsequently be deployed to the...

Draft standard E DIN 14800-18 Supplement 10

The German Fire Brigade Association’s working group on forest fires, headed by Dr Ulrich Cimolino, revised the load set J - forest fire with the technical support of @fire Internationaler Katastrophenschutz. This is part...

Annual report 2020 online

The Annual Report 2020 has been completed and is available for download. Find out more about the work of @fire.

40 tonnes of firefighting equipment on its way to Ukraine

Today, the first articulated lorry with 33 pallets and around 12 tonnes of firefighting equipment set off for Ukraine! A total of 120 pallets of material were collected in the last few days during...

Building a refugee shelter in the Black Forest

On the weekend of the 18. and On 19 March, at the request of the Black Forest National Park, 15 @fire volunteers assisted with the refurbishment of a vacant hotel as accommodation for refugees from...

@fire mission team supports coordination of international disaster relief in Adana

A mission team from the German aid organisation @fire arrived in the Turkish earthquake zone on Tuesday night. The team of 17 disaster relief workers and two rescue dogs left Frankfurt Airport for the...

Reconnaissance mission in Chelm completed - team on its way back

Our reconnaissance mission in the town of Chelm on the Polish-Ukrainian border has ended after seven days. The team left for the return journey to Germany at noon today. On site, Veritas Ambulance now...

Work shadowing in Catalonia

Already in March, four of our members were guests at the GRAF forest fire unit of the Catalan fire brigade. There, talks were held on the further expansion of the cooperation between GRAF and...

Technical recommendation on the use of aircraft for and by the fire department

The German Fire Brigades Association publishes the technical recommendation “Luftfahrzeugeinsatz / Aerial Firefighting Air Operations für und durch die Feuerwehr” under the leadership of Dr Ulrich Cimolino (BF Düsseldorf), Stephan Brust (Staatliche Feuerwehrschule Würzburg),...