Fire brigade youth Braunau celebrates record numbers and prepares exciting camps

Fire brigade youth Braunau celebrates record numbers and prepares exciting camps

Braunau, Österreich - The district conference of the district fire brigade command Braunau, under the motto "Together in action", offered an impressive review of the year 2024. With proud performance and impressive number of assignments, committed members of the Burgkirchen fire brigade presented the success and activities of the past year, presented by numerous guests of honor such as district captain Mag. Gerald Kronberger and state fire brigade commander Fpräs Robert Mayer, MSC. The 81 fire brigades of the district, which are limited to four fire brigade sections, managed a total of 41,840 missions, including 650 fire operations and 3,011 technical operations. Particularly noteworthy is the national F-KAT deployment in Lower Austria on September 15, 2024 with 85 firefighters for 36 hours of support in the disaster area, such as FireWorld.at reported.

statistics and challenges of the fire brigade

In 2024, the fire brigades of the Braunau district worked together 669,177 hours, which corresponds to around 371 people working years. The drought also presented the emergency services with enormous challenges. A total of 2,864 missions were made, including 560 fire operations and 2,304 technical operations. In addition, they had to take care of small-scale forest and surface fires several times, which were favored by the dryness. The fire brigade also fought with the shortage of extinguishing water, such as noted.