fire protection expert Albrecht Broemme talks about extinguishing the fire of Notre-Dame and declared the challenges of such a fire to the fire Department.
What have you thought when you were sitting in front of the TV and the Notre Dame Cathedral in flames saw?
These pictures from Paris I was very touched. If you can see, such as Notre-Dame burns suddenly ablaze. To me there are two Concerns that drove mainly: to Burn the Church? And: Create the firemen to get through these difficult without accidents?
A fireman was injured in the deployment on Monday night.
is violated If in the case of 400 firefighters, the master of twelve hours, a difficult one, is one too much, but it is a very good indication of the high level of training and level of Training of the Paris fire brigade, which by the way is a military fire Department. The are trained very severely, only the Best can survive there. And you have done a wonderful Job.
What makes the use of a Monument as Notre-Dame is particularly difficult?
The Notre-Dame is on an island, we are talking here of a building with monumental dimensions, with heights of a hundred meters, where there is no ladder longer sufficient and you have to walk up a flight of stairs. Judging from the color of the flame, the temperatures at 800, 900 degrees is located. In addition, the use of under the eyes of the world took place. The are several stress factors that came together here.
And structural factors?
In the case of Church fires, you normally have huge roof trusses made of wood and if a wood, as in the Notre-Dame is 800 years old, it’s totally dry. This is not to say that it is highly flammable, but if it starts to burn, it burns like tinder. And in the Cathedral, more than 200 tonnes of lead are installed, at such temperatures to melt and the liquid drips off. When you use self you do not need to keep a Balance between hearty Delete, and possible damage by water, often static with power.
How to use logistically is? It is in the service, and then the call comes: In one of the most important landmarks in Europe, it burns…
For such cases are in the most fire trucks of emergency response plans relating to for example the object of Notre-Dame, or, the cultural goods in this object; because, also, where and in what order they should be taken out of the fire. Apparently, this has worked well, the crown of thorns, worn by Jesus on the day of his crucifixion, has been saved. So a Plan is just a Plan. If this works then the way it was planned, is always the other question. I was also amazed at how extremely fast the fire spread and the roof has eaten.
It should also be robots.
Yes, but to my knowledge, no fire-fighting robots, but robots with cameras that can without risk a picture of the Inside. We are unfortunately not yet so far that there is an intelligent fire extinguishing robot – because we still need five, six years. When no robots were in use, since one is limited to the fire fighting from the inside and the outside by the firefighters.
How appropriate since Donald trump’s proposal to fly fire-fighting aircraft on the Notre-Dame?
On the one hand, I think it’s good that all sorts of people, the fire brigade to give advice. You may not only expect that you follow the also. If you had bombarded the Cathedral with the extinguishing water, he would be broke. The Paris fire brigade has used large telescope extinguisher, which was very thoughtful.
How such a complicated, large-coordinated operations?
So a large application with hundreds of firefighters can only work if you use sections, i.e.: section of roof, section, South, whatever. The faster it forms the important sections, the faster you can arrange a difficult. The use of wire is sitting in the command car, the use of commands are given via radio to the outside, with Large positions in churches or monuments have the police and monument protection an important function, especially in consulting.
How to submit in such operations the priorities?
If it were an inhabited house, would be the priority to rescuing people, she then goes in front of the fire-fighting. Here we have a historic building and because of the principle of rescue of cultural property in the applies to is fire-fighting. Because if you can not mountains as soon as possible of cultural goods, they would fall victim to the flames, such as, for example, the host with the crown of thorns. For residential house fires, the fire Department has to Practice more, that happens a lot more often than a fire in a Church. Therefore, you have to go the plans again and again and practice.
you Have it in this Inferno pictures is considered possible that the two characteristic towers of the Notre-stay lady?
When I saw the pictures, I thought, the Dom is lost. It would have not been missing much, then the roof would have burned more, and then the two distinctive towers had been recorded also from the flames – and then the bells would come down. It is handled very carefully with the Situation. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 16.04.2019, 18:45 PM
