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Permalink Reply by Tony P on January 7, 2009 at 6:31pm

Here's where you should go - www.euro-firefighter.com/ - to find what you want. Paul Grimwood has worked as a career firefighter both in the USA and in Europe, and has written a lot about the differences.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Dau on January 8, 2009 at 12:21am

the book is too general, i only want to talk germany and the u.s. firefighters.

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on January 8, 2009 at 7:51am

Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Dau on January 8, 2009 at 3:23pm

i am sorry, i want to talk about the german and u.s firefighter tactics. what the u.s. probie had to learn? it´s the same one of a probie in germany?

thank for wishes luck

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Permalink Reply by Scott on January 8, 2009 at 4:00pm

Well for one if your looking a bit more specific what area do you mean a paid company or a volunteer? a city company or a rural one because in each area we all have our differences responce time, equpiment and man power availibility ect and all of that causes up to bring our firefighters up from probies different and it definatally causes us to use much different tatics for example the only part of my town that has hydrants is main street for the rest of it we have to deal with the 1000 gals of water on our engine until either our tanker shows up or we have a alterative method to establish a water supply

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Dau on January 9, 2009 at 8:36am

hi scott

in germany is the water supply no problem, 98% the street in a town has underground hydrants. in a small town, i could happens that you have a problem, but its very rare.

the water supply of one ounderground-hydrant is 430 gal / minute and in town every 100 m is an underground hydrant, so the water supply is no problem

at rural it coult be more often you have a problem with water supply, but all engine and tanker in germany can pump water from a sea or a river and have a minimum 430 gals of water on the engine, the new gerneration of engines have 530 gals of water.

the trainig from probie to firefighter, at volunteer and payed are the same?
what kind of training they have to make?
how long are the training and they have to stay in firefighter-academy?

thanks for answer

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Permalink Reply by Dave on January 9, 2009 at 9:06am

The city of Boston still has under ground hydrants. We call them Lowrey hydrants, very rarely used, but last i heard we still have roughly 300 of them.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Dau on January 11, 2009 at 5:00am

until 5 years ago we check every hydrant in our town, now the water company make it and we have more time to make our job. i don´t know how much we have, but i look for the real number.

why you don´t use them, have you any problem with them?

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