In the fire protection and rescue service requirement plans, the council determines how many locations, vehicles and employees are to be provided.
There are three fire stations in Bonn, spread across Bonn-Zentrum, Beuel and Bad Godesberg. In addition, the professional fire department has taken over the task of the works fire department for the university hospital and also staffs the station there.
The ambulances stationed at rescue station 4 are responsible for the Hardtberg district and parts of the Bonn district.
All operations are coordinated via the control center for the fire department, rescue service and disaster control.

Fire station 1 (Bonn-Zentrum)
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Feuerwache 1 (Bonn-Zentrum)
Brandamtsrat Ralf Krahforst
Watch supervisor, fire officer
Lievelingsweg 112
53119 Bonn
Personnel
There are three fire stations, each with 31 firefighters. The minimum number of firefighters at Fire Station 1 is 18 from the professional fire department, two from the Malteser emergency service (24 hours) and six from the Malteser emergency service (12 hours). In addition, five employees from the control center and two people in management functions deployed throughout the city are permanently on duty at Fire Station 1.
For the emergency doctor service, an emergency doctor is available around the clock and a second emergency doctor from the Clinic and Polyclinic for Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at Bonn University Hospital is available ten hours a day on weekdays from Monday to Friday. In addition, two further emergency doctors are available on weekdays for transfers between hospitals under intensive care conditions.
Special features
- Headquarters of the fire and rescue service administration
- Head of office
- Medical director of the rescue service
- Individual staff council
- Administration, Civil Protection, Rescue Service Department
- Deployment, Organization, Personnel Department
- Preventive Fire and Hazard Protection Department
- Technology and Equipment Department
- Control center for fire department, rescue service and disaster control
- Command and Situation Center (premises of the operational-tactical staff)
- Crisis team rooms (administrative-organizational staff)
- Rescue service central depot and disinfection
- Vehicle workshop
- Radio workshop
- Breathing apparatus workshop with training area
- Clothes room with tailor shop
- Equipment store
- Hose washing and workshop
- Laundry and consumables store
History
After three years of construction, Fire Station 1 was opened in 1973. It replaced the old fire station on Maxstraße, where the City Hall now stands.
Vehicles
- 8 command vehicles
- 1 CAR
- 3 command vehicle ELW 1
- 1 MTF crew transport vehicle
- Emergency fire fighting vehicle HLF 20
- Turntable ladder DLA (K) 23/12
- TLF 4000 water tender
- RW S rescue vehicle rail
- KW crane truck
- 2 swap body vehicles WLF
- Roll-off container for operations management
- Breathing protection roll-off container
- Water roll-off container
- Rail roll-off container
- MAnV roll-off container
- Courier vehicle
- 2 emergency ambulances + 2 reserve
- 5 ambulances + 6 reserve
- Rescue service equipment vehicle
- 2 telecommunication service vehicles
Fire station 2 (Bonn-Beuel)
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Feuerwache 2 (Bonn-Beuel)
Brandrat Thomas Nelles
Watch supervisor, fire officer
Maarstraße 8
53227 Bonn
Personnel
There are three fire stations, each with 22 firefighters. The minimum number of firefighters at Fire Station 2 is 13 from the professional fire department, two from the German Red Cross(DRK) for 24 hours and two from the DRK for 12 hours.
Special features
- Training Center
- Department 37-12 - Volunteer fire department and training
- Disaster control camp
- Ladder examination
History
After two years of construction, Fire Station 2 was opened in 1970. At the start of construction, the full-time fire station of the then independent city of Beuel was to be housed here.
Vehicles
- Emergency fire fighting vehicle HLF 20 + 1x reserve + 1x training
- Turntable ladder DLA (K) 23/12 + 1x reserve
- TLF 4000 water tender + 1x reserve
- Animal equipment vehicle GW Tier
- 1 swap body vehicle WLF
- Foam roll-off container
- Supply roll-off container
- Roll-off container meeting
- Special extinguishing agent roll-off container
- Roll-off container for extinguishing sand
- 2 MTF crew transport vehicles
- 3 RTW ambulances
Fire Station 3 (Bonn-Bad Godesberg)
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Feuerwache 3 (Bonn-Bad Godesberg)
Friesdorfer Straße 160
53175 Bonn
Personnel
There are three fire stations, each with 27 firefighters. The minimum number of firefighters at Fire Station 3 is 16 from the professional fire department plus two from Falck Rettungsdienst GmbH (24 hours) and four 12-hour firefighters. An emergency doctor is seconded around the clock from the Johanniter clinics at the Waldkrankenhaus site to provide emergency medical services.
Special features
- Accommodation also for the fire department unit 31 - Bad Godesberg of the volunteer fire department
- Joinery
- Testing and maintenance of measuring equipment and protective clothing for NBC operations
- Laundry and care of firefighting clothing
History
Fire Station 3 was occupied at the turn of the year 1973/1974, after the turntable ladder had already been moved there a few weeks earlier to prevent thefts, which had previously taken place at night.
Vehicles
- Emergency fire fighting vehicle HLF 20
- Turntable ladder DLA (K) 23/12
- TLF 4000 water tender
- Measurement equipment vehicle
- 2 swap body vehicles WLF
- Firefighting support vehicle (LUF 60)
- Roll-off container for hazardous substances and goods
- Casualty decontamination roll-off container
- Universal roll-off container
- MTF crew transport vehicle
- Emergency ambulance NEF
- 5 ambulances RTW, two of them during the day at the external locations Koblenzer Straße and Johanniter Hospital
Rescue station 4
The ambulances stationed at rescue station 4 are responsible for the Hardtberg district and parts of the Bonn district. The operational area covers an area of around 42.5 square kilometers and around 52,000 inhabitants and stretches from the western city limits to the district of Röttgen, with the districts of Ippendorf and Venusberg as well as the 565 freeway between the Lengsdorf and Meckenheim-Merl junctions also being part of the response area.
The vehicle pool includes three ambulances for around 5,000 emergency operations, of which one vehicle is manned 24 hours a day all year round and two other vehicles are kept on standby from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 8 pm. One vehicle is also specially equipped to carry out heavyweight transports (up to a maximum of 318 kilograms).
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Rettungswache 4
Auf dem Kirchbüchel 4
53127 Bonn
Fire Station 5 - Bonn University Hospital Fire Department (Bonn-Venusberg)
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UKB Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Venusberg-Campus 1
53127 Bonn
Personnel
There are three watch departments, each with nine firefighters, who perform fire protection and technical assistance tasks around the clock on the grounds of the University Hospital Bonn (UKB).
Special features
- As part of a cooperation agreement, the municipal fire station 5 assumes the tasks of a plant fire department for the University Hospital Bonn.
- In urgent cases, the plant fire department also deploys to the districts of Venusberg and Ippendorf.
- Fire extinguisher workshop
History
The Bonn professional fire department has taken over the tasks of the UKB plant fire department since July 2015. The establishment of the plant fire department up to so-called full operation took place in several development stages. From the beginning of 2019, a total of 46 operational and command personnel from the Bonn professional fire department will take up their duties in the new, modern and functional fire station at the plant fire department at Bonn University Hospital. With three watch departments that are ready for action around the clock and the management of the plant fire department, the large fire protection unit required by the district government with two fire engines and a turntable ladder will then be fully available.
Vehicles
- Emergency fire fighting vehicle HLF 20/16
- DLK 23/12 turntable ladder (from 01.01.2019)
- TLF 20/40 tank fire-fighting vehicle (from 01.01.2019)
- Multipurpose vehicle MZF
Tour of fire stations
Visits to fire stations are possible for kindergartens or schools, provided that operations permit. Other groups can also register. Please contact the fire station supervisor responsible for the respective fire station to arrange a visit.
Control center for fire department, rescue service and disaster control
The fire engines, ambulances, emergency medical vehicles and patient transport vehicles are deployed daily under the control and management of the control centre for the fire department, rescue service and disaster control. Emergency calls are received and dispatched by officers of the professional fire department, who must have completed professional training as paramedics in addition to their group leader training in the fire department. In the area of ambulance dispatching, support is provided on weekdays by employees of the Workers' Samaritan Federation.
Every year, the Bonn control center on Lievelingsweg in fire and rescue station 1 coordinates around 4,000 fires and technical assistance services, 10,000 emergency doctor deployments, 33,000 emergency transports and around 40,000 ambulance transports. The fire and rescue control center can be reached at any time for emergencies by dialling 112 and for ambulance transports by dialling 65 22 11 or 19222.
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Leitstelle für Feuerwehr, Rettungsdienst und Katastrophenschutz
Brandamtsrat Jörg Schneider
Head of the control center
Lievelingsweg 112
53119 Bonn
Personnel
The control center has four employees on day duty and three duty groups, each with nine firefighters. The control center has a minimum of five dispatchers from the professional fire department on 24-hour duty and one dispatcher from the professional fire department on 12-hour duty Monday to Friday. The team is supplemented on weekdays by two ambulance dispatchers from the Workers' Samaritan Federation and a dispatcher for secondary transport from the professional fire department.
Tasks of the control center
- Calling the emergency number "112" and the ambulance number
- Alerting and dispatching fire department and rescue service resources
- Documenting all operations
- Keeping the central supply capacity record of the hospitals
- Monitoring the Bad Godesberg road tunnel
- Updating the alarm and call-out regulations
- Administration and data maintenance of the operations control system
- Creating and maintaining duty rosters
- Statistical evaluations
- Providing the management assistant for the B service
- Commissioning the command and situation center for major incidents
Technology
The control center is equipped with extensive technology for information processing and communication. The operations control computer supports the dispatchers in all steps of their work. A wide range of interfaces to numerous other technical systems ensure that operations are processed quickly and reliably.
16 emergency call lines are technically available, as well as eight lines for the information telephone 0228 717171, which can be used to inform the public in the event of special emergency situations.
With the commissioning of the new incident command computer, it is now also possible to transfer incident data immediately to the navigation devices in the vehicles. This means that the incident command computer also recognizes the locations of all vehicles and can assign the closest one to an operation.
There is a cooperation with the control center of the neighboring Rhein-Sieg district, which enables mutual support and joint operation at one location in the event of a control center failure. A special component of the cooperation is the possibility of emergency call overflow. If the volume of emergency calls in a control center is very high, it is possible for the other cooperation partner to accept emergency calls. Joint process descriptions regulate the interaction between the two control centers.
History of the fire department
The year 1863 is considered to be the founding year of the Bonn fire department. In this year, the then "Turner fire department" appeared in public with an exercise on the market. At this time, the gymnastics clubs had taken on the task of organizing firefighting in fixed structures in many places.
The Bonn fire department celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013. Of course, there were already fires before 1863, but firefighting was not organized effectively. Developments in preventive fire protection in particular have ensured that the devastating fires of past centuries no longer occur today.
Chronology of the development of the fire department
1672 - The building regulations of Elector Max Heinrich mention a self-imposed fire code and assume certain facilities for preventing and fighting fires. It also mentions a tower guard at St. Remigus and a town house in which fire-fighting equipment was housed.
1698 - Elector Josef Clemens' police regulations demand the expansion of the tower guard service.
1730 - Elector Clemens-August issues fire regulations.
1777 - The electoral residence palace burns down completely in four days. The flying fire causes 13 further fires, destroying many buildings. The late raising of the alarm by the tower guard and the uncoordinated and ineffective fire-fighting are said to have been the cause.
1800 - The Remigius Church is destroyed by fire. The "Fire regulations for the municipality of Bonn" are issued. This and subsequent fire regulations specified who was to man the various "fire pumps". Eight such fire engines were distributed throughout the city. The last fire regulations already had the first signs of a compulsory fire department and remained in force until 1877.
1858 - Mayor Leopold Kaufmann issues an appeal to the citizens to set up a fire department, as already existed in other towns. There is no success, no one signs up for the service.
1862 - The "Bonn Turner Fire Brigade" consisted of 60 men, was uniformed and had its own fire engine donated by a fire insurance company.
1863 - The "Turner fire department" appears in public with a drill on the market. The Bonn fire department is founded.
1866 - After two major fires, it becomes clear that the organization and strength of the fire department needs to be increased. Gradually, the local fire departments in Dransdorf, Graurheindorf, Poppelsdorf, Endenich, Kessenich and Dottendorf merge to form the Bonn fire department.
1941 - The municipal professional fire department is founded by order of the Cologne district president.
1969 - Following the municipal reorganization, the fire departments from Bonn, Bad Godesberg, Beuel and Hardtberg are also merged.
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