Fire brigades in the Krems district: record operations and flood aid!

Fire brigades in the Krems district: record operations and flood aid!

Hadersdorf am Kamp, Österreich - KREMS (Lower Austria)-A dramatic increase in fire brigade operations in the Krems district was recorded for 2024. The fire brigades moved out more than 5,000 times, which represents an increase of almost 60 percent compared to 3,301 missions in 2023, as the district fire brigade commander Martin Boyer reported. The flood in September was particularly challenging, when a Bundesheer helicopter had to be used to prevent a threatening dam in Hadersdorf am Kamp. "If 85 houses and 60 apartments had been affected, we would have had a disaster," Boyer emphasized during the district fire brigade day in Mautern.

efficient operational organization

The reorganization of the district management staff has a striking proven itself and enabled an efficient coordination of help. The emergency services worked from various forecasts to be able to react better to weather events. The concept also includes planning a container terminal in Tulln in order to store important aids such as sandbags and pumps. The development of an app will be sought for the future, which should enable a real -time exchange between the operational organizations. In the past few months, 330 million euros in instant aid for 19,000 private households and companies have been provided in the district, which underlined the overwhelming willingness of the fire brigades, as Social Councilor Christiane Teschl-Hofmeister announced.

In the Krems district, a total of 121 fire departments are active, the 6,859 members, including 5,086 active firefighters. In total, the comrades performed over half a million hours in the service of security last year. Cooperation with other organizations such as the Federal Army and the Red Cross is particularly recognized and shows the great commitment of the emergency services in this challenging time, so Noen.at