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On New Year’s morning, the Berlin fire brigade takes stock of Operations last night. Overall, it was “pretty quiet,” a Tagesspiegel spokesman said in the morning. However, the fire department had to 862 missions move. That’s 661 less than the year before, when the fire department logged 1523. Two-thirds of the missions this New Year’s Eve were about Firefighting negotiated, a third were Rescue operations state.
Due to the experiences of the past years, one was well prepared. the “State of emergency at the end of the year” proclaimed, which means that additional management services and more staff will be deployed. A total of 865 workers from the professional fire brigade, 550 volunteers and 90 workers from aid organizations of the Bundeswehr and 20 employees of the technical aid organization were on duty. “We had enough resources and we were always on site quickly,” the spokesperson said.
Around 12:45 a.m. it broke into one Supermarket in Buckow started a fire that burned the entire building and collapsed the roof. Here the emergency services could “In the last minute” prevent flames from spreading to two neighboring single-family homes. The reason for the fire was apparently in the back of the store. stored pyrotechnics.
43 times moved the fire department to operations on call on New Years Eve “Forbidden areas of firecrackers” outside. Alone six However, based on the current state of knowledge, this may be related to the lit pyrotechnics. The fire brigade was also treated there severe injury.
There was also this year Attacks on emergency services. Five times firefighters documented attacks that year, four of them with pyrotechnics. “Anyone who puts his service in the common good and rushes to help people in need will not be fired. This behavior is unjustifiable“Said the state fire chief, Karsten Homrighausen.
The fire department counted below nine car fires Several fires in balconies and apartments.. A basement burned down on Eisenacher Strasse in Hellersdorf. Four people were saved from the flames. In all, emergency physicians spotted and examined 13 people.
as well due to corona cases the fire department had to move last night. Three people had to be transferred from a nursing home to clinics due to suspected corona.
In general, the fire department is satisfied with their tactics and the way they handle missions. “We knew that the turn of the year will be special, like all of 2020. For next year, especially, I would like people in Berlin to be even more careful when dealing with fireworks,” Homrighausen said.
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