Fire Department In The Netherlands

In the Netherlands, fire fighting has traditionally been a task of the municipal authorities. This was most recently laid down in the Security Regions Act (Wvr) of 2010, which delegated the implementation of fire services to the security regions. In the Netherlands, the last municipal or communal fire brigades have been abolished since 2014 and since then only 25 fire brigades have existed, one within each safety region.

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The Dutch fire brigade has a fleet of vehicles that are fiery red in color. In addition, the vehicles are equipped with BZK (Internal Affairs and Kingdom Relations) striping, which was created to increase the recognizability of the various emergency services. Since 2019, new vehicles are provided with OOV striping, specially made to be more visible at night. The vehicles of the fire brigade are equipped with blue flashing lights and two-tone horn.

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Professional corps can only be found in large cities or special areas such as the Joint Fire Brigade. A shift is completely spent in and around the barracks while waiting for a call. During these hours the maintenance of equipment and barracks takes place, exercise, sport and study are done and rest hours are included. Naturally, an emergency call has the highest priority. Usually, after the alarm has sounded, the necessary equipment and men leave the barracks within 1 to 2 minutes.

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Feuerwache in Meerssen, Niederlande — Fire Station in Meerssen, The Netherlands

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In small and medium-sized municipalities in particular, there is almost always a voluntary fire brigade. Almost 80 percent of the 26,900 firefighters (2019) in the Netherlands are volunteers and do fire fighting as a sideline. The employer often allows the employer to leave work when he or she is called for an urgent intervention. The calls are generally made via pagers (also called pager or beeper). In these cases, a volunteer is expected to be at the station within 2 to 3 minutes of being alerted. The training of a volunteer is the same as for professionals. Picket arrangements are often used to guarantee the emergence of a full crew. A separate legal status regulation applies to volunteer firefighters, which also regulates the compensation that the volunteers receive.

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Caserma dei Pompieri ad Alblasserdam, Paesi Bassi — Fire Station in Alblasserdam, the Netherlands

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Some of the aspiring firefighters in the Netherlands come from the youth fire brigade. The professional and voluntary firefighters undergo the same training(s). There are different ranks to which certain training obligations are linked. The diploma in crew A, for example, consists of the modules Fire, Technical Assistance, Accident Hazardous Substances, Assistance Water Accident and Life-saving Actions. The combination leads to the diploma. After that, you can obtain the diploma in crew B to be able to perform specialist tasks. The next level is that of commander and associated with it the rank of fire master. A commander is the supervisor of a tanker sprayer and supervises 5 to 7 people. As indication; Commander training takes approximately three and a half years for volunteers. The training to become a fire officer (Duty Officer) takes place centrally at the Netherlands Institute for Physical Safety/NIBRA in Arnhem.