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The Federal Agency for Technical Relief, in German "Technisches Hilfswerk", abbreviated with "THW" is a civil protection organisation in Germany. It counts almost 84.000 members, with 99% of them being active on a voluntary basis. Among the roughly 84.000 members there are 15.000 young volunteers, known as THW Youth (similar like at volunteer fire departments). Thw THW is scattered at more than 660 stations throughout the country. Each one covers a local chapter. The THW is able to cover rescue and technical support tasks which go far beyond the capabilities and capacities of the local fire departments.
Field organization and apparatus:
Each local chapter maintains one or more technical platoons, each consisting of one command squad, comprising four volunteers, two rescue units comprising nine (first unit) to twelve (second unit) volunteers, and one to three Technical Units, comprising four to eighteen volunteers.
The main type of THW unit (about two out of three) is one of two Rescue Groups, equipped with heavy tools like hydraulic cutting devices, chain saws, and pneumatic hammers. Their apparatus are the so-called "GKW 1", Equipment Truck 1 for the 1st Rescue Group and the "MzKW", a Multi-Purpose Truc) or the older "GKW 2" for the 2nd Rescue Group.
The Technical Units include:
Bridge Building
Command, Control and Communication
Debris Clearance
Demolition/Blasting
Electricity Supply
Illumination
Infrastructure
Logistics
Oil Pollution
Search and Rescue
Water Damage / Pumps
Water Hazards
Water Supply and Treatment
For relief in foreign countries, there are four so-called SEEBA (Rapid Deployment Unit Search and Rescue Abroad) units, able to go airborne within six hours, and five so-called SEEWA (Rapid Deployment Unit Water Supply and Treatment Abroad) units.
The compilation here shows all kinds of emergency runs I filmed from the THW so far. Either single vehicles or whole convoys, from the north-west to the south-east throughout the whole country. The videos are from the following local chapters:
Dresden
Forchheim
Frankfurt am Main
Fürth
Hamburg - Eimsbüttel
Hamburg - Harburg
Heiligenstadt
Hofheim
Kelheim
Leipzig
Nordhausen
Regensburg
Stralsund
Straubing
I added a 2 minutes long lasting slideshow after the outro scene. The reason is that it's a slideshow, not a video, and that it doesn't show them responding code 3. However, I still wanted to show some more units which I wasn't able to film so far, but only got the pictures from. For example some MAN KAT1 offroad truck, a truck crane, command truck or wheel loader