Annual Report 2019

Dear members, friends and supporters, 2019 was the second year in a row in which a dry period confronted fire brigades at home and abroad with a partic­u­larly large number of partic­u­larly fierce vege­ta­tion fires. As in...

Annual Report 2018

When will climate change come? What conse­quences will it have? No one can say with absolute certainty, but one thing is clear: Those who are trying to protect people and prevent harm around the world...

Tech­ni­cal recom­men­da­tion Safety and Tactics

Fight­ing forest and wild­land fires is usually a mission to protect prop­erty and make a signif­i­cant contri­bu­tion to protect­ing the envi­ron­ment. When fight­ing forest and wild­land fires, the safety of the emer­gency services must always be...

Oper­at­ing options @fire

@fire offers its exper­tise in the context of disas­ter relief both for oper­a­tions at home and abroad. This cata­logue almost summarises the differ­ent capa­bil­i­ties and deploy­ment options of @fire. Depend­ing on the federal state,...

Emer­gency advice: Grain field fire

Fires in crop fields pose the great­est danger to fire­fight­ers because of their poten­tial dynam­ics. The oper­a­tional note summarises the most impor­tant oper­a­tional prin­ci­ples and the procedure.

Annual Report 2017

“Dear Ladies and Gentle­men,dear members, 2017 was a year of omens for us. Many of us perceive that the number and frequency of natural disas­ters is increas­ing. Heavy rain­fall with flood­ing, droughts with forest fires,...

Annual Report 2013

Dear friends and supporters, 2013 was a very turbu­lent year for @fire. We were on flood relief in Lüchow-Dannen­berg; helped our friends in Vila Real cope with a bad forest fire season; and were in the...

Annual Report 2010

Dear friends and support­ers,The year 2010 began with a great chal­lenge for @fire due to the earth­quake in Haiti. As the first German search and rescue unit on the ground, our team was able to...

Thesis Paper “The Bitburg Paper

What happens when- 6 heads or senior managers of fire schools from Germany, Luxem­bourg and France- repre­sen­ta­tives of each coor­di­nat­ing body of the Bundeswehr fire brigades in Germany- a heli­copter pilot of the German Federal Police-...