FF St. Jakob/ Rosental

With a freshly blessed fire engine to the operation

A celebration with a demonstration exercise by the youth fire department was planned for the big fire department anniversary in St. Jakob im Rosental, but then the comrades had to go straight to an operation with the newly blessed fire engine.

(Bild: Sobe Hermann/Hermann Sobe)

140 years of the St. Jakob im Rosental fire department - a big celebration for older and very young comrades and for the population, the bar was decorated with handmade flames, the new fire engine was blessed - and the team had to move out with it!

The fire department is always ready for action, day and night, even when it is organizing a big festival. The members of the St. Jakob im Rosental fire brigade proved this on Sunday afternoon. 

The temperature was hot on Sunday, the anniversary celebration was hot and the operation that had to be carried out in the middle of the celebration was also hot.

(Bild: FF Sankt Jakob im Rosental)

In the middle of the 140-year fire department and 25-year youth fire department celebrations, an operation had to be completed. "We had an emergency response team for emergencies like this," explains commander Hubert Madritsch. The comrades quickly removed the flowers from the new vehicle and set off. "A person had been stung by a bee in a forest," says Madritsch, adding that stretcher assistance was required from the St. Jakob fire brigade.

Once the person had been handed over to the rescue team, the festival continued.