The Netherlands is divided into 12 provinces. Each
province typically has 2 police command centers and 2 fire command centers. 112 calls are received by the
closest police command center and then transfered to the appropriate fire command center if necessary. In
1999, amalgamations of municipal level governments
are ongoing. Each province will ultimately have one
or two regional fire departments.
Unknown Source On The Above Group of Photos - 1999
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IJsselmuiden Fire Department
The first photo below shows a Mercedes-Benz
watertender, in 1992 build by Ziegler. It is equiped
with some HazMat; gives place to nine people
(included driver and chef). The tank is 2.000 litres (� 530 US gallons). The pump gives 2.800 l/min (� 740 USgallons per minute) at 8 bar (= 800 kPa = 116 psi)
and a sucktion hight from 1.5 m (= 1,65 yard). With
high pressure the debite is up to 250 l/min at 40 bar (4MPa, 65 US gallons per minute at 580 psi)
The second one is a Magirus-Deutz, build in 1978
by Motorkracht. Gives place to nine people (included
driver and chef). The tank is 1.350 litres (� 345 US
gallons). The pump gives 2.800 l/min at low pressure
too. At high pressure it gave a tiny bit more: 265
l/min (70 gal.)
The third one is the Iveco Zeta Rescue from 1988.
Crew 6 people.
Photos in this section are the property of Ewoud Klop
(who also supplied all the info)
Most homes (50%) in the Hardinxveld area are heated by central heating units powered by piped natural gas. 30% of homes have (?bottled) gas stoves, 10% are oil heated, 5% have coal stoves, and 5% have wood stoves. Oil delivery via tanker trucks to homes has been curtailed in recent years due to environmental spill concerns.
Few homes have air conditioners for the summer due to the high cost of the appliances and the high cost of electricity. Older homes have thick walls and window shutters to keep out the high temperatures of the summer.
Approximately 20% of homes now have smoke detectors.
Dear Fire Fighter Friend.
From now you can take a look at the latest news with many photo's of incidents from the Netherlands Regional Fire Department South-East North-Brabant.
This site shows you the most recent incidents with foto's. Also you can take a look at my personal patch collection. When you like it, I appreciate if you want to sign my guestbook. The adress is of the site is: http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~b.vercoelen
Also you can find the link on the site of:
http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/
My name is Berry Vercoelen and I am engaged as a dispatcher in the control center of the Regional Fire Department in Eindhoven.
During the past 14 years I have been engaged as a volunteer fireman with the fire department of the town of Son & Breugel, just outside the city of Eindhoven. As a volunteer, I became so interested in the profession, which I managed to turn that interest into a full time position in Eindhoven.
Our region covers 22 municipalities with a total of 37 fire department locations.
Thirty-five of these departments are in the towns and villages in the area and the other two departments are with DAF Trucks and the Technical University of the City of Eindhoven.
Our region has at its disposal: 150 vehicles and 22 containers with extra hoses and special equipment for large-scale operations.
The Eindhoven FD, where I am employed, has 210 employees with
- * 1 commander
- * 1 deputy commander
- * 105 professional firemen and -women
- * 17 volunteers
- * 14 dispatchers
- * Other personnel dedicated to prevention, preparedness, training, administration etc.
I hope this gives you an impression of fire prevention in the Netherlands, in particular
Our region.
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Also see the file titled "INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY
DISPATCH" on this website for information about
dispatching in the Netherlands.
Maarten van 't Hof
To: Fire-L Newsgroup
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Fire Flow - GPM's
Sorry to ask,
but what is a John Bean? Is this a High pressure
pump? (just a European
asking)
We in the Netherlands use for one room house
fire's almost always a High
pressure hose.
For instance a typical kitchen or starting (bed)
room fire is most of the
time extinguished with a crew of two on breathing
apparatus and 1 high
pressure hose. The engines have there own 1500
litres tanks with water on
board, so about 1-2 minutes after arrival the crew
can be indoors and
applying the high pressure water. I do remember
several fire's in
house's, where there was no more than about 100
litres of water used to
stop and extinguished the fire.
One of the advantages is the lack of water damage.
Almost all the water
changes into steam.
We find this way of working very effective. But
remember, most of our
structures are of stone and concrete, so a fire
does not quickly expands
to the floor above or next to it, if the doors are closed.
As a commander of an engine we are trained to make
the decision to use
high pressure or low pressure. We cannot easy use
both at the same time.
(technical pump problems). Car fires and inside one
room fires are typical
high pressure fire's. We can even use high
pressure with foam (car fires).
Is this not in use with you in the states?
Maarten van 't Hof.
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In Europe, where Volume once reigned, many
departments are utilizing
two
stage pumps for the first time. Some
departments, like those in Sweden,
are
going the "John Bean" high-pressure route. Did
we miss something when
we
experimented with the John Bean's back in the
1970's, and determined
that
they were N/G?
regards,
Lou Angeli
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Maarten van 't Hof,
Vice fire chief,
Barendrecht Volunteer Fire Department
Barendrecht, Netherlands. (10 km south of Rotterdam)
vanthof@npartners.nl
P.O. Box 75
2990 AB Barendrecht
Netherlands
Fax +31 180696398 Phone +31 180696396
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