Due to the description and the location of the object within a port facility, the guide alerted and able to service an increased Force to the site. The squad leader sensed a fire in the superstructure of a floating crane with outer dimensions of 50 x 15 meters, located at the intended place of a diving company spent. In order to locate the exact source of the Fire, had to be forcibly created an access into the Interior of the ship body. A fire squad with circulating air-independent respiratory protection, and a C-tube, consisting of three forces, then went on to the fire-fighting into the Interior, had to end his project, however, due to the enormous development of heat and Smoke rapidly. As members of the Operation suspected of the Fire due to the Local in the machine room, decided to trigger the head of the on-Board carbon dioxide fire extinguishing system and flooding the room with CO2. Since this is not the desired success of the Extinguishing could reach, were then used again two fire crews using two independent approaches to fire fighting. They were able to locate the Fire in a rest room for the crew below Deck and the fire quickly delete. The damping-down and ventilation work lasted due to the very high heat treatment of the vessel body and the high fire load until late in the morning. During the extinguishing secured two small boats and the fireboat-fire-Director Westphal water side of the application. Because the extinguishing water was temporarily sets the network resources to achieve an optimal extinguishing success, was informed of the authority for the environment, climate, energy, and agricultural economy. After the completion of the time-intensive damping-down and clean-up the application was a representative of the environmental authority and the water protection police for further investigation pass.
in Total, there were 72 responders of the professional fire brigade and Voluntary fire brigade with two fire-fighting trains, a guide service B, an environmental service, an area leader of the FF, the duty press officer, three AC load vehicles with roll-off containers, port of, respiratory protection and charging Board wall, a FF supply, as well as two small boats and the fireboat-40 on the ground.
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