Samstag, 21. November 2009

Rescue Days - in Norderstedt



From October 9th to 11th Norderstedt staged the biggest event for technical rescue activities for firefighters worldwide.
and other tests. These are the first cars being produced after inventing a new model.
A big attraction for all the visi-tors is the car switch at stations number 11 and 12 where the cut open cars are being re-placed. A forklift truck lifts them up on 7m height and drops them onto a highwaybar-rier. This for sure is also excit-ing for the participants.

The Weber company, the leading company for hydraulic rescue tools, which organised the three-day RESCUE DAYS expected around 500 active participants from over 23 nations worldwide and roughly 15.000 spectators.
We welcome people from all over the world as there are many from Germany and a lot from Europe. But we also welcome many teams from other conti-nents as Abu Dhabi, Brazil, Chile, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan who had a long journey.

It was great snice I was mainly involved in planning this event. The education, teaching 9 different scenarios requested a lot from the participants. Nine different contents are being taught at 18 different station. Especially the deliverance out of the brand new cars attracts the participants. These cars are cars without a serial-number, which are only used for crashand other tests. These are the first cars being produced after inventing a new model.





A big attraction for all the visi-tors is the car switch at stations number 11 and 12 where the cut open cars are being re-placed. A forklift truck lifts them up on 7m height and drops them onto a highwaybar-rier. This for sure is also excit-ing for the participants.

ROME - 2009

Finally - Tayna reminded me to refresh my blog - sorry for letting things slide. In may - I was able to meet a great friend of mine - Katie!
It was so much fun to meet them on their trip to Europe in Rome, Italy.

We had 3 days together and since Katie and Brian never got tired - it was very exhausting ;-)! Thank you so much for pushing us - we are such lazy guys and the weather was soooo hot! Crazy - since we have a very human climate in Germany - we aren't used to such a heat at all.

We saw som eunbelievable artwork and historical building you never even would have thought about. I uploaded a couple of pictures - sorry for the big number and the few explinations.