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The Berlin Fire Brigade (German: Berliner Feuerwehr - Berlin Fire Defence) is the fire and emergency medical service for Berlin, Germany. As well as firefighting, the Berlin Fire Brigade provides fire prevention , technical rescue services, emergency medical services , and assistance in case of chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear hazards.
Berufsfeuerwehr (professional fire station or brigade) of a municipal body counting over 100,000 citizens, such as the city of Berlin as a full-time city department; Werkfeuerwehr (plant fire station or brigade) of a larger company, for the needs of the company operating them by law e.g. refineries or chemical industry production facilities
From 1922 to 1933 he was the sixth head of the Berlin Fire Brigade. After studying mechanical engineering, Gempp joined the Berlin Fire Department in 1908. He was given the project of developing a motorized fire extinguishing service, and in 1908 he produced the first engine-powered hose truck. In 1923 he became chief fire commissioner in ...
The most intensive use of life nets was conducted in a large scale operation by the Berlin fire brigade during and right after construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, when a large number of people jumped from houses in the Soviet sector onto the life nets of the West Berlin fire brigade on the pavement that was part of the western sector of ...
Outside these cities, the German fire services consisted of volunteer fire brigades, in cooperation with compulsory fire brigades (Pflichtfeuerwehr) and industrial fire brigades (Werkfeuerwehr). [3] In spite of being a branch of the Ordnungspolizei , the Fire Protection Police was a municipal institution; respective cities having the budgetary ...
The French Army also had units in Berlin, called French Forces in Berlin and the British Army's unit in Berlin was the Berlin Infantry Brigade. US Army's Berlin Brigade patch Brigadier-General John E. Rogers (USA) and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Dorofeev (Soviet Union) at Spandau Prison, in 1981 Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Dorofeev (Soviet ...
A brigadier general served as the "Commander, Berlin Brigade (Infantry); Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Berlin and Community Commander". The shoulder sleeve insignia adopted by USAB was the same as the patch used by the Berlin Brigade – the USAREUR patch with a Berlin tab. By the mid-1960s, the Berlin tab was incorporated into the patch.
The four Allied commandants of Berlin, 1949. Cold War; Allied-occupied Germany; Allied Kommandatura; Berlin Wall; West Berlin / East Berlin; Berlin border crossings; United States Army Berlin (for the American forces in the city) Berlin Brigade; Berlin Operations Base; Berlin Infantry Brigade (for the British forces in the city) French Forces ...