There was a lot of action on sunday in the small spa town on the sinn river. After the solemn first communion in the morning in the city’s parish church, numerous festive guests took a stroll along ludwigstrabe to digest their food. Meanwhile, the town hall square filled up more and more with high-horsepower and chrome-flashing motorcycles, the reason being the eighth motorcycle blessing in bad bruckenau (report in tuesday’s edition). Unexpectedly then howled at 13.At 30 o’clock the sirens went off, the fire department’s emergency vehicles roared through the city.
"The parish hall is ablaze", it was a hit – but fortunately it was only the scenario on the occasion of the annual main fire department training of the volunteer fire department of bad bruckenau and its three district fire departments. "In the narrow streets of the city center, we are quickly shown our limits", says commander michael krug. In view of the youngest core city fires in munnerstadt and wurzburg, this is an absolutely necessary exercise.
The turntable ladder had to be maneuvered through the church alley very close to the burning parish hall. In case of emergency, the vehicle would certainly not have been safe, and the use of the ladder would therefore only have been possible with heavy breathing protection.
The scenario was thought up by district fire inspector marco brust: "the aim of the exercise is to set up two separate water supplies and to protect the surrounding narrow buildings with a wall of water".
The volkers fire department dammed up the river leimich and ran a hose line from the old district office across the church forecourt to the scene of the incident. The district fire brigade of wernarz "sensible-experienced and with the most direct route of approach, drove over the dam behind the municipal utilities to the sinn and laid a line directly into ludwigstrabe. There, the firefighters from romershag with their bravely struggling portable fire pump, a 2-stroke trabbi engine, extended the line up the kapellengasse to the parish courtyard. Next to the helter-skelter on the ladder, ten jet pipes built up impressive walls of water. "In an emergency, however, we did not get very far with the ten pipes and the total of 64 firefighters deployed", said a self-critical district fire inspector "nevertheless we have reached the training goal completely. Water was available very quickly, the groups have worked together optimally." the beer tasted good with the sausage after the situation meeting …