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Voluntary Fire Brigade of Perchtoldsdorf

On this homepage we want to give you an overview on the situation of the firefighters in Austria and especially on the work of the Voluntary Fire Brigade of the community of Perchtoldsdorf in Lower Austria near Vienna .

 Generalities

Under the term of Firefighters we understand an organisation of people that is responsible of fulfilling the duties of Firepolice and of local dangerprevention.

Voluntary Fire Brigades are corporations of public interest, that fulfill administrative duties under state control.

In Austria we distinguish three different sorts of Fire Brigades

•  Voluntary Fire Brigades

•  Company Fire Brigades

•  Professional Fire Brigades

 

Voluntary Fire Brigade of Perchtoldsdorf

Historical

The Brigade was established in 1868 and consists actually of

 

 Crew

103 active members (from Age 15 to 65)

13 reservist members( older then 65)

20 young firefighters ( Age 10 to 15)

 

We distinguish two sorts of events:

Technical missions – car accidents , security measures for goods,animals an people. Fire missions of all dimensions including fire alarms triggerd of in Companies.

The majority of alarms - around 80 Percent – concern technical events, the rest of 20 percent are related to firefights. Our duties include the protection of events (clubbings, theatre festivals,etc) and the supervision of fireworks.

 

Alarm

The alarming of our active members is done either on individual radio receivers or by messages on mobile phones through the district alarm center in Mödling.

In case of extreme danger the alarm comes through wailing of sirens.

 

Vehicles

The Voluntary Firebrigade has actually 13 vehicles and 3 containers. With these vehicles we cover 28.000 Kilometers a year. We distinguish between fire extinguish vehicles and technical vehicles. There is also the combined form of both possibilities.

 

Special services

Due to the proximity to the Austrian Capital Vienna , the Voluntary Fire Brigade of Perchtoldsdorf is part of the Alarmplans of the Professional Firebrigade of Vienna and can be involved to assist them.

Further we are part of the Catastrophe Support Services of the District of Mödling especially in case of natural events like floods or extreme snowfall. Therefore we participate with a kitchen container constructed by the members of our brigade.

Furthermore we have five experts for matters involving explosives.

 

Young Firefighters

The Young Firefighters were established on July 14 th 1972.The young people in the age between 10 and 15 are instructed in all maters of Firefighters. They participate in exercices and competitions to improve their skills. The young Firefighters of Perchtoldsdorf performed exdtremely well on local, national and international Level.

 

Local Competitions

Year	Localitie	Position	Class
1993	Laa an der Thaya	5. Platz	Silver
1995	St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde	3. Platz	Silver
1998	Schwarzenau	5. Platz	Bronze
		2. Platz	Silver
1999	Vösendorf	2. Platz	Bronze
2000	Wiener Neustadt	4. Platz	Bronze
2001	Zeillern	1. Platz	Bronze
		2. Platz	Silver
2003	Oberhöflein	2. Platz	Bronze
		5. Platz	Silver

National Competitions

Year	Localitie	Position	Class
2000	Hohenems (Vlbg.)	3. Platz	Bronze
2002	Mistelbach (NÖ)	2. Platz	Bronze
2006	Feldbach (Stmk.)	16. Platz	Bronze

International Competitions

Year	Localitie	Position	Class
2001	Kuopio (FIN)	4. Platz	Bronze
2003	Kapfenberg (AUT)	7. Platz	Bronze

 

Financial Structure

The members of the Voluntary Fire Brigade of Perchtoldsdorf achieve yearly around 25.000 hours of unpaid voluntary work for the protection and the wellbeing Of the inhabitants of our town. The high cost to garantie the readiness of the Brigade (vehicles,uniforms, equipment) are covered by local subventions trough Public founds on the one side. But a substantional part of our revenues come from Fund raising actions and from the events we organise regularly.