The district fire inspection is happy about the central material storage in the new disaster control camp in Machtlfing - a relief in many ways.
The offices and the district fire brigade archive have not yet been occupied.
Machtlfing
- "That was the best idea Martin Popp had," says Andreas Pain. He is district fire inspector, Martin Popp commander in Machtlfing and owner of the building in which the Ulenspiegel printing company was located until 2020. These originally agricultural buildings were empty, Popp was looking for new tenants and the district urgently needed a central disaster control warehouse. It has recently been located on Birkenstrasse in Machtlfing. "It's big enough right now," says Pain.
As a power finger and head of the warehouse, the move has a decisive advantage for Pain personally - the distances are shorter. Since 2015, the main warehouse has been spread across various buildings on the extensive grounds of the special airport in Oberpfaffenhofen. “There was a kilometer between one building and the other,” says Pain, “a catastrophe.” Not to mention how he got there. There were sub-camps in Etterschlag and Gauting. Pain has to travel just 100 meters to the new central warehouse. So a home game.
1200 square meters of space are available in the courtyard, which after the abandonment of the print shop turned out to be a fortunate coincidence for the district, which urgently needed a center.
“And here on the outskirts we don't bother anyone,” says Pain happily.
Traffic and noise are kept within limits.
The former stable building and the fodder storage hall had already been expanded to two storeys by the print shop owners and have a freight elevator and large office space.
Ideal conditions for a disaster control camp, which also houses the fire brigade archive and the 13-person district fire inspection headed by district fire chief Peter Bauch.
Bauch's fire protection department remains in the district office in Starnberg.
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The files and furniture are still piling up: the print shop had its offices in the large rooms of the former straw warehouse above the stable.
Now the district fire inspection and archive are to move in there.
© Andrea Jaksch
At the moment, all the material is not yet stacked in its final place. The stocks in Machtlfing have been collected since April: masks, disinfectants, gloves, protective gowns and goggles. Everything that was and is necessary for the pandemic and beyond, such as protective suits if African swine fever or bird flu break out. "The main difference is the durability," explains Pain. They do not differ in appearance. Heavy, one-piece chemical protective suits in plastic roll containers are also located in the former fodder mining hall in which the print shop had its paper warehouse. Their use is practiced once a year, because with swimming pools, breweries, dairy or 3M there are some objects in the district where an emergency could arise. Large tents are also stored. Those,which stood briefly in Gilching until it became clear that containers would be more appropriate for the employees of the test station. There is also a high water pump that can pump out 8000 liters of water per minute. The district already had emergency roofs and a mobile loudspeaker and siren system before the flood disaster in Rhineland-Plant and North Rhine-Westphalia. "Bavaria has taken precautions," says Pain.
The district is also equipped with camp beds, blankets or tents for further emergency accommodation, such as in 2015 in the refugee crisis in Hechendorf or Inning. With one forklift and two forklifts, the material is quickly to hand in the three halls. There is also more space. "If you tell me that Corona is no longer coming, that's enough," says Pain.
Pain has support in the organization of the camp from the equipment attendants of the volunteer fire brigade in Buch. He could also fall back on comrades from Machtlfing. In an emergency, all the fighters work together. Because if 86 addresses have to be approached regularly, as in the hot phase of the pandemic, there is not much free time left for volunteers like the 42-year-old motor vehicle expert and father of two school children. Pain, however, doesn't have to go that far anymore.
