Fire Engines Photos

Vienna is only one of six cities in Austria which has a paid full time fire service. But:
The country has an amazing 4,460 volunteer fire companies too - one for every 2,000 residents! These reflect the long history of a mountainous country with a very dispersed rural population, living in predominantly wooden buildings, when access between villages was difficult at best and pretty much impossible in winter. Each settlement needed to be able to rely on its own volunteers and equipment, as mutual aid might take hours to arrive. And so, despite better roads, much better equipment and better communications, this tradition prevails. No wonder Rosenbauer has grown into a leading Worldwide manufacturer of fire trucks - just think what a home market base they had and still have!

The Vienna brigade, founded 320 years ago, has some 1,700 paid personnel, working out of 24 stations covering a population of nearly two million in area of around 160 square miles. These comprise nine main stations each of which have at least two pumps and numerous specials and fifteen single pump sub stations. Together, they average close to 100 alarms a day including around 30 fires.
Because of two areas which are too far from paid stations to always insure a timely response, the city also has two volunteer fire companies.

Added by Rob Johnson on 08 January 2022.

These rescue pumpers have a mid mounted 1600/400 LPM dual pressure pump with front, rear and side deliveries and control panels in the cab and at the rear. They have a 1200 liter tank and a CAF system which can deliver either class A or B foam.

Added by Rob Johnson on 10 January 2022.

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