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Apr. 13—At Hamburg Fire Company, the old is new and the new is old. Two years ago, the fire company embarked on a firehouse renovation and expansion project that included demolition of two ...
A MAN LF 16/12 (Engine) of the Volunteer Fire Station in Brehna, Germany Fire platoon of one of the stations of the fire department of the city of Hofgeismar. The Feuerwehr (German: fire defence) is a number of German fire departments. The responsible bodies for operating and equipping fire departments are the German communities ("Gemeinden ...
The fire in Hamburg is under control, but crews remained on-scene to hit hot spots as they work to get inside the large warehouse. The fire in Hamburg is under control, but crews remained on-scene ...
Unlike fire protection, the task of providing EMS, while legally mandated, is not necessarily performed directly by the district. If it is, it will be operated as a "kommunaler Rettungsdienst" ("County EMS"). In some cases, local municipalities will provide the service directly, usually through a full-time staffed fire department.
In 1843 a fire medal was awarded to the volunteer firefighters who assisted Hamburg during the great fire that engulfed the city from 5 May 1842 until 8 May. In total 4,858 medals were awarded. The inscription on the medal states "Das Dankbare Hamburg Seinen Freunden In Der Noth" ("The grateful Hamburg in need to its friends"). [28]
Six months later, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources law enforcement officer spotted a truck registered to Bartels near the forest. Court records said within an hour, a fire was reported.
Hamburg (German: [ˈhambʊʁk] ⓘ, [7] locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ⓘ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ⓘ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, [8] [a] is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million.
The great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroyed 1,700 residences and several important public buildings, necessitating major civic rebuilding and prompting infrastructure improvements.