On Wednesday evening, 17 more disaster relief workers and another rescue dog took off from Frankfurt Airport for Turkey. Three more task forces will join them from Basel on Thursday. The helpers will complement...
The rescue team of the German civil protection organisation @fire was able to save two people alive from several collapsed apartment blocks in the city of Kahramanmaras (Turkey) early this morning. The 17-member search...
A mission team of the German aid organization @fire sets off from Frankfurt airport on Monday evening for the Turkish earthquake region. The first task will be to explore and assist in the coordination...
On Thursday evening, August 18, 2022, the 65 forces of the forest fire unit and their 20 vehicles returned from their mission in southwestern France exhausted but healthy. “The operation was very exhausting, but...
In Armenia, there has been a serious explosion in a shopping center in the capital Yerevan. According to previous reports, at least 16 people were killed and more than 60 others were injured. Presumably, a warehouse with...
In the last week of March, two members of @fire participated in the Module Basic Course of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in the school of the Swedish MSB,. The MSB(Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och...
In cooperation with #WeAreAllUkrainians and other partners and sponsors, @fire - Internationale Katastrophenschutz e.V. was able to hand over the first fire and rescue service vehicles to the fire departments in Kiev over the...
In cooperation with the initiative #WeAreAllUkrainians we are urgently looking for ambulances, fire trucks, foam trucks, aerial ladders/ telescopic masts as well as personal protective equipment for the firefighters in Ukraine! Despite the numerous...
Specialized units of @fire are currently assisting with large forest fires in the Falkenberg/Elster region (Brandenburg) and in the Saxon Switzerland National Park (Saxony), where about 250 hectares of forest are on fire. The...
