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-...

Annual Report 2011

For @fire, 2011 was all about expand­ing our network - nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally. Numer­ous inter­nal and exter­nal train­ing courses helped to improve the effec­tive­ness and skills of our emer­gency units. To this end, we...

Profes­sional Recom­men­da­tion Aircraft Deployment

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),...

@fire – Internationaler Katastrophenschutz Jahresbericht 2020

Annual Report 2020

Dear members, friends and supporters, There is a lot of talk about disas­ter manage­ment these days. This is demanded and improved all over the world. @fire was also deployed in 2020 for the explo­sion disas­ter in...

Notes on use Coupling stan­dards in Europe

It is 10 Septem­ber 1933 and after a long period of drought a fire breaks out in a barn on the south-east­ern outskirts of Öschel­bronn. Due to the strong east­erly wind, it can spread quickly and damages...

@fire – Internationaler Katastrophenschutz Jahresbericht 2021

Annual Report 2021

The year 2021 contin­ued the trend we have been observ­ing since 2018: After many years of devel­op­ment work, we are able to support author­i­ties and emer­gency response organ­i­sa­tions so effec­tively that our help is...

Profes­sional recom­men­da­tion devices and equipment

In many fire depart­ments, consid­er­a­tion is being given to what addi­tional equip­ment would be useful to purchase for vege­ta­tion fire­fight­ing. Even though this ulti­mately depends to a large extent on local condi­tions, such as topog­ra­phy...

Jahres­bericht 2012

Ich kann mich noch recht gut an unseren ersten Schritt im Bere­ich „Search and Rescue“ erin­nern: Auf der Feuer­wehrmesse Inter­schutz 2005 stell­ten wir einen gebrauchten Motorham­mer und eine gespon­serte Endoskop­kam­era auf unserem impro­visierten, aber sehr gemütlichen Stand vor. Nicht in unseren...