MÜLHEIM AN DER RUHR (GERMANY): A large commercial complex has been burning in Mülheim an der Ruhr since the early morning of February 8, 2021. 144 firefighters from the Rhine district of Neuss, the district of Mettmann and Düsseldorf are now moving in to relieve the around 250 emergency services on site.
In Mülheim an der Ruhr, an approximately 120,000 square meter commercial complex in the Mülheim-Speldorf district has been burning since Monday morning. There are currently around 250 emergency services involved in the extinguishing work. Since these will drag on for several hours, the Mülheim fire brigade requested support at an early stage.
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According to a nationally planned concept, 144 fire brigades from the Rhine district of Neuss, the district of Mettmann and Düsseldorf have been assembled since the morning to replace the fire fighters in Mülheim on site. The meeting point for around 30 emergency vehicles is the parking lot in Düsseldorf-Stockum. From there, the closed association then drives towards the fire station in Mülheim an der Ruhr. After that, the emergency services are relieved at the scene of the fire.
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For many years there have been fixed concepts in North Rhine-Westphalia for supra-local support for fire and rescue services. This can be requested by all fire brigades and is used regularly for large-scale operations.
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As early as 2020, the so-called fire brigade team supported four firefighters from the Rhine district of Neuss, the district of Mettmann and Düsseldorf twice in a forest and heather fire in the district of Viersen. The Düsseldorf fire brigade also received support from the entire Ruhr area in January 2020 for an evacuation as part of a munitions disposal in the Derendorf district.
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The units are currently on the way to Mülheim. From Düsseldorf, the volunteer fire brigades Angermund and Garath as well as the technical and communication train of the volunteer fire brigade support the forces at the Flughafenstrasse location. Units of the German Red Cross from Düsseldorf also accompany the association to supply the emergency services. A measuring vehicle of the environmental protection train of the volunteer fire brigade has already moved to Mülheim in advance to carry out measurements on site with other fire brigades.
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Info from the Ratingen fire brigade
A large commercial complex has been on fire in Mülheim an der Ruhr since Monday morning. There are currently around 250 emergency services involved in the extinguishing work. During the night, the Mülheim an der Ruhr fire brigade requested extensive support. Among other things, readiness 4, consisting of units from the Düsseldorf fire brigade and the fire brigades in the Mettmann and Neuss districts, was alerted according to the state concept for pre-planned regional aid.
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According to the concept, the forces from the Mettmann district initially met at the main fire and rescue station in Ratingen. After compiling the units, they were relocated to the Düsseldorf exhibition center and merged with the units from Düsseldorf and Neuss. After that, the standby command, four fire-fighting trains and one logistics train was moved to Mülheim in order to relieve the fire fighters in Mülheim on site.
Pre-planned supra-local help from the fire brigade – 3rd fire brigade readiness of the Düsseldorf district government supports in Mülheim an der Ruhr
To support the Mühlheim an der Ruhr fire brigade in a major fire in a former supermarket, fire department 3 of the Düsseldorf district government with units from Mönchengladbach, the district of Viersen and Krefeld moved out to the Ruhr area today at 5:00 p.m. The emergency services will replace units from Düsseldorf, the Mettmann district and the Neuss district who have been working at the site since this morning and who have replaced or supported the fire fighters from Mühlheim.
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At 4:00 p.m. the alerted fire engines from the Lower Rhine began to gather at the main fire and rescue station in Krefeld. There they were put together to form a large unit and then moved out together as a closed column into the Ruhr area. They are supported by disaster control units of the MHD and the DRK. The major fire in Mülheim an der Ruhr broke out in a former supermarket in the night from Sunday to Monday.
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Several hundred emergency services have been fighting the flames for many hours in icy temperatures and have to be relieved and replaced on a regular basis. The expected deployment time for the third standby is approx. 12-16 hours, so that the fire fighters from the Lower Rhine will probably be on duty all night.
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Local help in Mülheim an der Ruhr – the Düsseldorf fire brigade supported together with emergency services from Neuss and Mettmann in the event of a major fire
The fire brigade four from the Rhine district of Neuss, the district of Mettmann and the state capital Düsseldorf returned from Mülheim an der Ruhr in the early evening. The approximately 150 emergency services assist with the extinguishing of a 100 by 150 meter commercial property in the Mülheim-Speldorf district.
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Some emergency services, together with units from the Mülheim an der Ruhr fire department, ensured basic fire protection for the city of Mülheim. In addition to the units for the extinguishing work, a measuring vehicle with emergency services from the volunteer fire brigade’s environmental protection train was in use for around eight hours together with other measuring units from North Rhine-Westphalia.
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In addition, around shortly before eight o’clock in the morning ten other emergency services of the technology and communication train with a mobile emergency power backup system and trained specialists moved to Mülheim an der Ruhr. However, the mobile unit was not needed, so that the emergency services were back at their location in Düsseldorf by early Monday noon. After a good 14 hours, the three fire brigade units, consisting of fire brigade units from the Viersen district and the cities of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, replaced the emergency services from Düsseldorf, Neuss and Mettmann in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
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