The new command vehicle (ELW) radiates in firefighting typical Red with yellow reflective stripes. And Commandant Markus Karrer (right) shines because finally replace the discarded ELW is created. He and the deputy division commander, Jan, showed yesterday what the car so everything on it.
After the old car had to be retired in May, firefighters Bad may have recourse to a new command vehicle since Wednesday. And can considerably more than the old.
City General Markus Karrer invited the media last night on a tour of the vehicle at the building on the Saline Street. As the name command vehicle, a short ELW, already suggestive, it serves the fire department to conduct a mission. As a rule, there next mission control even a driver and radio operator in the vehicle, three people, and depending on the size of the insert more people could be added.
The ELW was tailored to the needs of the whole city. As backbone served a VW Ford Transit, the construction was done on the line with the requirements of the fire department of a company. There, the firefighters brought the vehicle made with reflective material from on Wednesday.
The population is invited to the open day of the fire on Sunday, September 16 from 11 am to the shed to make you a picture of the new MCU, which is full of technology and equipment. Communication we attach particular importance. So the mission control is via radio, phone and Internet with the outside world. Under one of the seats, there is another printer with fax and scan function. A boardroom table is also available. To first-aid kits, extinguishers, a floodlight, emergency power and other more hidden at the rear of the vehicle.
95 000 euro cost the new ELW, part of which was subsidized by the state. Karrer emphasizes that it does not handle at the equipment to a luxury version, but the standard has been implemented. Although the old command vehicle with reflective tape not the technical possibilities had as the current vehicle, it could yet carry more people; it was also a MTW. The now is missing the fire brigade Bad. It is therefore in discussion with the city, said Karrer. Other “sites” to do with the old pumper from the year 1973rd Action do itself sooner or later even with the portable pump vehicles on who came from to 1979.