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Catfish · 12-20-14, 01:43 PM

And thanks Firefighter

, i thought it would be something like that.

While in some situations the military is asked to help (e.g. flooding or major catastrophes), the civilian organisation for such matters in Germany is the THW, or "Technisches Hilfswerk" ("Technical Helping .. err Works" ?).
It has own grounds for storing machinery and emergency stuff, also canned food and medicine, but firefighter and decontaminating eqipment only for real bad situations, like a nuclear facility blowing up, energy plants or chemical pollution.
Normal Fires are being dealt with local firefighting units, which certainly can be quite big, like around airports etc.

Seems like the FEMA does similar things.

12-20-14, 01:43 PM	#19
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,804 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	And thanks Firefighter , i thought it would be something like that. While in some situations the military is asked to help (e.g. flooding or major catastrophes), the civilian organisation for such matters in Germany is the THW, or "Technisches Hilfswerk" ("Technical Helping .. err Works" ?). It has own grounds for storing machinery and emergency stuff, also canned food and medicine, but firefighter and decontaminating eqipment only for real bad situations, like a nuclear facility blowing up, energy plants or chemical pollution. Normal Fires are being dealt with local firefighting units, which certainly can be quite big, like around airports etc. Seems like the FEMA does similar things.