The Gauting volunteer fire brigade has had a new vehicle fleet: The district is stationing the recently delivered hazardous goods equipment trolleys in the Würmtal.
For the volunteers this means first of all: practice, practice, practice.
The special vehicle is not even in Gauting.
Gauting - From the outside you can't see the new equipment trolley for dangerous goods (GW-G) that it is basically a puzzle made up of several hundred pieces.
The district's special vehicle has been stationed at the Gauting fire brigade, but will be used throughout the district in the event of an accident.
It was picked up from the manufacturer at the end of January, and the fire brigade began training last week.
They'll drag on for months.
District fire chief Peter Bauch and Gauting's commander Stefan Klaußner expect the GW-G to be able to go into action from autumn onwards.
What is a GW-G?
Laypeople can hardly distinguish it from other fire fighting vehicles, but a GW-G is a special vehicle for accidents that also happen in the district, albeit fortunately rarely: when dangerous substances such as oil, chemicals or the like leak or leak, or when leaks are sealed have to.
The GW-G is loaded with special tools that do not strike sparks - essential in explosive environments.
He has breathing apparatus, protective suits, decontamination equipment, special devices such as adapters for tank trucks and tank cars, a wide range of measuring devices also for radiation accidents and special containers on board as well as material for sealing canal or water inlets.
And on a larger scale too.
If oil leaks out of a car, any fire brigade can handle it, explains Bauch.
If a tank truck with 30,000 liters leaks, which has happened, for example, on the A 95 in Höhenrain, the capacities of the GW-G are required.
The district has three so-called accident operations, i.e. companies with a higher risk potential.
This includes, for example, the Kraillinger tank farm.
The hazardous goods equipment trolley would also be used in the event of chlorine gas accidents in indoor swimming pools and the like - that has already existed, including in Gauting.
But even in a normal house there can be scenarios in which the GW-G has to move in together with the so-called dangerous goods train - for example, if a large oil tank is broken.
The weirs are equipped for minor incidents of this kind, but not for larger or longer-term operations.
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Inconspicuous, but versatile: the new equipment trolley for hazardous goods is used across the district when hazardous substances such as oil or chemicals escape in large quantities - it is therefore a fire service vehicle for environmental protection.
© Gauting fire department
The dangerous goods train is made up of special vehicles that belong to the district and are stationed at several fire departments.
The breathing / radiation protection equipment trolley is at the Starnberg fire brigade and other units in Gilching.
The next acquisition in one to two years is a measuring technology equipment trolley that is to be located in Tutzing and is equipped with devices that can also register unusual substances.
There was the previous, much smaller GW-G from 1995, which is now being taken out of service.
Belly about the new vehicle: "So far there has not been a vehicle in this form in the district."
The vehicle cost the district around 450,000 euros, said spokesman Stefan Diebl.
The Free State is providing around 295,000 euros of this through a funding program.
The funding is higher than normal because the district had forged a procurement alliance with the city and district of Ansbach and the district of Weilheim-Schongau through the district fire inspection and district fire inspector Helmut Schweickart and purchased four identical vehicles.
The Free State rewards such collaborations with a ten percent higher grant.
The district emphasizes that the GW-G serves environmental protection.
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The vehicle in the closed state.
© Gauting fire department
The Gautinger Wehr, with its strong staff, had agreed to take over the GW-G, although there was no space for the truck in its tool shed, which was too small anyway.
Since the GW-G is not a vehicle that is frequently alerted and is usually requested, it is not in Gauting, but in a garage in the tool shed on Pentenrieder Straße in Krailling.
If the GW-G is needed, Gautinger comrades go there and fetch it.
It's easy, because the GW-G has a crew of two.
The other forces will then deploy directly from Gauting with other fire engines.
Since the GW-G has loaded hundreds of individual pieces of equipment - besides special tools, buckets, brushes, lamps - some of which are stowed in roll containers, the training effort is high.
Although the people of Gauting already know many devices because they also have them on their vehicles, some are new, says Commander Klaußner.
And they need to know what is stowed where.
The training courses also drag on for months because, due to the corona, no regular training courses are currently possible - only in small groups and only with FFP2 masks.
At the district level, Bauch is planning a special course, if that is possible again.
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