Thursday, February 25, 2010

Bonn's fire still fixed on the spot



Bonn - "Big Brother" Bonner at the fire department. An ultra modern computer system makes starting to agree that the 300 urban life saver can be even faster to fires, disasters and accidents on site.
The headquarters of the brigade on Lievelingsweg. Here is the new Einsatzleitrechner. "Of course we knew even before that, which is where the vehicle was in operation," said fire chief Jochenstein. "But now we can see exactly where our people."
Does "Big Brother", for example, then that is an ambulance, which is just on my way home from a wager placed near a new installation site, it can be instantly directed to it.
This saves time, can save lives. Cost of the new system: 600,000 Euro.Neu the Navitagitonssysteme in the carriage of the fire. The team jumps into the vehicle is on display already see exactly the route to the point of use.
The new "fire protection requirements plan" - even something like a Christmas wish list of fire chief. Could well imagine that the lights are simply umgeswitcht to tricky places where the fire department or ambulance is en route. "There are, for example, at Godesberg Tunnel a place to listen to the motorist because of a curve, although the signal from the car, but not the warning light to see."
Could there be lights in the short term then put on green, would be unnecessary stop the rescuers quickly beendet.Die university hospitals in the Mount of Venus. For Stein, an "absolute risk object." Because the Fire Station 1 is located quite far away, planning chief of the Bonn Floriansjünger a new Directions: From the fire station on the road over the Friesdorfer Annaberger road. Because that is not attached, but sometimes have to 290.000 euro will be invested in a new road surface. "Then we can be in seven instead of nine minutes on the ground," said Stein. And changing the traffic lights is also significantly cheaper to build than in the districts of new guards.
Conclusion of stone: The Bonn Fire Department is well positioned. But can always improve something.