Not only fire brigade. Our ambulance system works the exact same way. So that comes on top, whe have a ton of volunteer paramedics, water rescue the same - mostly volunteers.
We call it the "Freiwillige Feuerwehr" and for comparison: there are around 17000 villages in Austria and there are around 4500 volunteer fire brigades, so more than every 4th village has one
The austrian fire departments also regularly send help if another country needs help with forrest fires(France, North Macedonia), floods, earthquakes(Turkey) etc. These long deployments(with weekly rotation) are also voluntary.
What are the other countries that don't? I know that the UK is one of them, we don't really have volunteer firefighters. We do have retained firefighters, who are like volunteers in that they have other jobs and get called out to fires, but they get paid for every fire they respond to. We only really have volunteer firefighters in some very rural areas but only 3 fire brigades have volunteer units. Even our retained firefighters are more sort of like backup. There may be stations where there are only retained firefighters but I think what is often the case is that there will be one engine manned by professional fireman and then if they need more people to respond then they call the retained firemen
when he said "There is a country in Europe..." he meant that there is a country in Europe with 99% of the fire brigade being volunteers, which isn't the case in other European countries.
@@marxistvalorie Yes, I understood. The majority of European countries have more volunteers than professionals: Portugal 94%, Germany 97%, Austria 99%, Czechia 87%, France 88%...
1:12 Damn, don't scare me like that. I'm an Austrian volunteer firefighter and this sound made me jump, as that's the exact sound my phone notifies me with when there's a fire emergency.
Yes they are top. Also small villages like my own, have mostly top tear equipment. Most times they get around the village once a year and ask for a small donation - and you are happy to give them a few bucks. Because you dont want to see them in your house in full gear and blue lights everywhere. 😉 But if you need them, they will come and they do a great job. I was a volunteer ambulance emergency driver for about 10 years - I say THANK YOU to all those volunteers around the world
First: great reaction again 👍🏻😎 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 second: it’s a father to son thing, most families got one in the fire department 👍🏻 and don’t forget the fire department’s Fest in every town, with amount of beer, next time when i drive to work, i gonna send ya a pic from our volunteers fire department 👍🏻 third: my cousin is in the fire department in Graz/Austria (second largest city) 😂😂😂 as an employee
It's pretty much the same here in Slovenia. Fire Service is probably the most respected organisation in the country, for various and obvious reasons. These guys are a bunch of dedicated, selfless and proud people.
on so many "this is how its in austria" videos i find some slovenian saying "we are actually like that too" lol and i dont even think you are lying i think you are very simliar to us in many ways
It works similar in many countries in Europe, here in Poland around 97% are volunteer - around 500 profesional (PSP) and 16000 volunteer brigades (OSP) out of which around 5000 are connected to same emergency system as profesional ones. By the way here is a video of fire truck parade from Poland, most of those are volunteer brigade trucks including some historical ones as volunteers often buy older, used trucks from west europe or even US: th-cam.com/video/wQiIzYXVjzk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the report on our work at the Austrian Volunteer Fire Service! Like many others who have commented here, I am an Austrian volunteer firefighter myself. How does the Austrian volunteer fire department work? Quite simply, we believe that helping each other is the key to a better society and community! So when someone needs help, we help when we can, at any time of the day or night. And because this is something you can't do alone, the country and each region supports this work with financial resources, for this there are laws and rules that ensure that the fire departments have enough equipment and the operation works.
really , funny why i had to leave austria with the age of 17 , from all this alcoholism and class violence , austrian volunteerism is just for show , men from "wrong families" use this to get the chance for a good job for networking reasons , not everybody is allowed to join , or gets pushed out, at small places it gets a real mafiafeel , when you have to sell your soul to drunk monkeys and some pedos,..... to belong to the group dont forget our fireservices are a leftover from our old version of sozialism, like the Autobahn
Portuguese firefighters (both urban and forest firefighters) are also mostly volunteers with other actual professions. Only Lisbon, Porto (the bigger cities) and maybe a few more towns have professional fire brigades. But even there you will find volunteer brigades acting alongside them.
Furthermore we have the Feuerwehr Jugend, which means Firefighter- Youth. They start at the age of 10 and they start with basic training and and learning about the equipment. They also have competitions of knowledge and some sport activities around the firefighter stuff. In most Villages the local Firebrigade, whith the local sportsclub are the only institutions which hosts some small festivals for the village.
Number of fire departments and active members in Germany (as of December 31, 2020): 22,020 voluntary fire departments with 1,006,638 members, while the proportion of professional fire departments (called Berufsfeuerwehr in German) is only 110 with 35,041 members. Then there are plant fire departments (Werkfeuerwehr called in German, fire department units in industrial companies or Airports) whose number amounts to 755 with 33,451 members.
After 25 years in the volunteer fire department, I joined the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief. With the Federal Agency for Technical Relief, 98 out of 100 members are volunteers. It has to be said quite clearly: Germany would be lost without all the people who work on a voluntary basis.
Especially since, from what i remember, Laws, Regulations etc we have here in Germany make it impossible currently to establish a professional Fire Department in a City with less than 100.000 People (though there are a few Exceptions who had one with only 90.000 to 100.000 People living in them) 🤔 Though it is problematic since less and less People join Volunteer Fire Departments, THW or other Organisations nowadays..
@@Sheppart92 some smaller towns with way less than 100k inhabitants have established a professional FD a long time ago and kept it to this day. Some of those towns have as few as 50k or even just 30k inhabitants
@@EnjoyFirefighting Ah well i might be a bit rusty with the Details, i once read the "Feuerwehrmagazin" every Month but i stopped buying them over 10 Years ago regularly so i only remember that Berufsfeuerwehren could be established in big Citys with at least 100k People, though i do remember that some Volunteer Fire Departments (Freiwillige Feuerwehren) had established a Sort of System like a Berufsfeuerwehr for bigger Citys.
@@Sheppart92 some medium scale towns with a volunteer FD have a small full-time crew, staffing the station during certain times of the day or 24/7. But those small / medium size town professional fire departments aren't anything new which has happened in the past few years, it's rather the exact opposite with them being old grown. Thus towns like Stralsund have a professional FD despite not being anywhere near the mark of 100k inhabitants
@@Sheppart92 , so nicht ganz richtig. Görlitz hat Stand 2021 55519 Einwohner und trotzdem eine Berufsfeuerwehr.Das hängt aber mit der altstadt zusammen, viele alte fachwerkhäuser und andere, sehr alte Gebäude. Die Altstadt von Görlitz ist Kulturdenkmal. Weitere Beispiele dazu wären Gießen, Lünen, Eisenach, Minden, Cuxhaven oder Iserlohn.
Check on the current events that took place the last few days in Austria. The flood from the heavy rain! Many thanks to our amazing fire department and all the volunteers for their tireless commitment!
In small villages, all male and sometimes also some females are firefighters. When you are born there, first thing you have to do is sign up to the fire brigade, after that you can learn how to crawl. In Austrias capital Vienna live 25% of all Austrians. Here the work is done mostly by a professional fire brigade.
They do not bring the community together, they are one of the expressions of a community that is already together and working as intended. There are many other Volunteer organizations in Austria, and neighbors still help each other.
that is the illusion , its only a leftover from not so distant times like the Autobahn , and we know how that ended , and please mißunderstand me right, the idea is wicked , but this volunteer club has also a political and a corruption aspect plus ist one of the reasons for unhinged alcoholism in austria , example if your familie is stupid and doesnt put you in the club , u will get no job in the village because its the place where you sell your soul for vitamin B (network) ,...
It is common in Central Europe. In the neighboring Czech Republic, every village or town has a legal obligation to establish a fire department or to have a contract with a unit from a neighboring village. Even in our small village of 140 inhabitants, we have a volunteer fire department. Depending on the size of the village, the size and equipment of the units and the size of their area of operation also vary. Professional firefighters are in cities. It is up to the central dispatcher which combination of units to call for a specific incident. Our volunteer fire department was founded in 1899.
Yes, thas is true czech republic has 85% of firefighters voluntary, and i our region half of volunteers are uder 18 years old mainly because of firesport, we have many local and national competitions
in France there are 78% volunteer firefighters, 17% professional and 5% military, the latter are in Paris and Marseille, in the city in the south of France, they are called sailor-firefighters because they are attached to the French navy
The reason why we do have such a high percentage of volunteers is, that the fire brigade (by the way the ambulance too, but not mentioned in the video) is some sort of after school Club life activity for young teenagers , especially in the rural countrysides. There they make friends and forge compagnionships which is why many of them stay in fire brigade service till old age. To be honest. Without our volunteers in both fire Brigade and ambulance our system won't work. So they are highly respected in our country
Hey @IWrocker an Austrian here, we've a pretty cool fire fighter system. There even exists exceptions for truck drivers for driving a fire brigade. And we have almost all volunteers. If you've gotten a job and you are also an volunteer firefighter you are under a ton of exceptions in terms of laws for workers. You can leave immediately and police don't mind fast driving for fire fighters if they gat 'the call' (fire sirene). And as a fire fighter your are a hell of a beer drinker usually LOL
In Germany, the members of the fire department also serve voluntarily. In a society that knows no cohesion and everyone is only concerned about their own advantage, something like this is unthinkable.
In my village with around 450 people we have about 50 voluntary firemen if not more. in this kind of Villages its pretty normal to be part of either the Fire Brigade, local Music, Sport, Hunter and Fisher or several other clubs. Also they take it very seriously. One Time at a birtday party there was an alarm and about half of our guests were just gone the next second.
We have a aerial ladder 3 villages away, and it's supposed to be at the place within 20 min everywhere. And it's able and of course allowed to drive 120km/h! One of the fastest trucks on the streets.
@@Gommuten das trifft mancherorts zu, aber selbst dort ist die Feuerwehr dann auch nur einer von mehreren Leistungserbringern, und nicht der alleinige Anbieter. In den meisten Gegenden gibts keine Berufsfeuerwehr, und selbst unter den Berufsfeuerwehren gibt es viele, die keinerlei Rettungsdienst betreiben.
im from a really tiny village(ard 200ppl) in austria and we got a fire brigade counting around 50 members. This works by introducing the children to the hobby at the age of 10 which is when u start to learn about fire prevention, how to put out small fires(using fire extinguishers etc.), how to work the radio and get ur first uniforms. At that age you already start competing with other fire youth clubs in the nearby villages. When you reach the age of 15 (sometimes earlier) you enter basic training and once you reached the age of 16 you start responding to calls. We get those insane ratios of participants by the fire brigade being the main cause of comradery in the village. Most of our celebrations are held at our fire station. However our 24/7 ln call system really does not take much of our time since we work a ridiculously little amount of calls per year. So our fire brigade is really more of a social club that happens to have a purpose.
A friend of me is involved in the fire brigade in his community. an other friend bought a fire truck from Austria. They are quite popular in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands. We also have a volunteer fire department. And Lunteren fire brigade. Make their own TH-cam videos. Lunteren is a small village on the Veluwe. A 30 minute drive from Spakenburg. Where I live, I have also been coming on holiday to the Veluwe for years. put me down somewhere. And in 5 to 10 minutes I know where I am, without telephone or internet.
Czech service has proffesionals, and volunteers as well. But they are separate units. You can recognize them easily, the state owned drive much worse fire engines :)
In the video it wasn’t that clear but at the age of firefighters in active duty is 15-65, although for scba training you have to be 16+ and be in active duty for one year.
There are 700,000 volunteer firefighters in Poland, of which 228,394 are ready to act at any time . In addition, of course, there is the state fire department that coordinates their activities and trains volunteer firefighters . The state fire brigade in Poland is only 30,000 people. Every village and small town with less than 10,000 inhabitants relies on volunteer firefighters
In Italy it's something similar for ambulances, maybe thanks to the fact that "Red Cross" was invented in Italy, there are a lot of different non-profit organizations on voluntary basis like Red cross, White cross, Blue cross, Green cross, and other "crosses" basically any color you can imagine(seriously I even spotted even like brown and purple crosses). but also other non-profit organizations like some veteran associations ( like the alpini/carabinieri) and even some religious entities do manage and crew ambulances. They are all integrated and directed by a unified system responding to the emergency calls 112 that can also dispatch police forces and firefighters depenging on the kind of emergency. These ambulances pick the patients up and carry them to the hospital, usually the closest being the default destination, sometimes the most appropriate for the medical problem faced (a medic can overrule the default destination for example if the patient is facing let's say a cardiac problem the medic can divert the ambulance to an hospital with a dedicated cardiac unit instead of a more generic hospital) Time ago hospitals used to have their own ambulances but apparently this has become a rare thing today. Also similar is civil protection specific for disaster responses like floods, heartquakes etc.
The intresting thing about how the fire brigade and Austrian society is the Vereine They are a big part of our society and they're kinda like clubs so just a lot of people with the simmilar intrests or jobs. For example in my municipality we have a Farmers Verein a Bee keepers Verein a Stadtmusik (City music band ( every municipality has one of those)) and the Katholic Youth (of which I am a part of) They meet regulary but also organise events for the Community and are a respected part of every municipality. And by far the most repected of them all is the Freiwillige Feuerwehr ( eng.: the voluteer fire brigade)
In Germany about 95 % of all active firefighters are volunteers. There around 22,000 voluntary fire brigades (some with a professional commander or a small professional staff) with about 1,006,000 members, 112 professional fire brigades (a bit over 35,000 members) and a bit over 750 plant fire brigades (around 33,500 members). There are also more than 20,500 youth fire brigades with around 270,000 members - that's one way of recruiting volunteers. Before 1995 some municipalities could charge a fire brigade fee from male and healthy citizens of military age which did not participate in the fire brigade. In case of a fire alarm volunteers are entitled to be releases from work immediately, they can not be fired, but have to be paid by the employer (who can get compensation for that). Volunteers have also to be released from work for training courses. The voluntary fire brigade of my home town got 2020 for the first time a professional commander paid by the town. It consists of 270 volunteers in 4 departments. I found a video showing a fire alarm situation from there: th-cam.com/video/0sp25hBS1lU/w-d-xo.html Around 1:20 the first volunteers are arriving, around 3:40 the first truck is leaving.
In Germany, you keep getting paid by your employer while working as a volunteer firefighter. However, if your absence from work exceeds certain limits (>7 h in a two-week period), your employer can get reimbursed by the state. Also another perk that played a role until 2011 when general conscription into the military ended, if you had pledged your services for the fire brigade for a certain number of years, you were exempt from military service. My guess is that that was also the case in many other European countries.
its very common for kids on the country side to join the firebrigade like a club and they do meets (kinda like scouting groups too), also comes from boys being forced into military or civil conspriction (firebrigade is not part of civil but it explains the respect for civil courage). Its not weird and rather seen as cool to be in the firebrigade or paramedics
Additionally our military is quite good at disaster response (the main thing they are good for tbh), so in cases like floodings, or storms we not only have a lot of firefighters, but also experienced military engineers.
This made me look up the local stats, In the Netherlands about 80% volunteers, only 63% in Belgium. Cant find a direct reason why this is so different have to look into that, or maybe someone can tell me ✌️❤️
volunteers, but extremely well trained. Even when they cooperatete with police, Bergwacht or Technisches Hilfswerk. And across borders. Very fast response. On alarm they may immediately leave their main job, and the employers get payed for the missing time.
I am living in Vienna. In the last years three of my friends moved to the country side. Meanwhile all of them are members of the volunteer brigade. It’s a social thing but also taking responsibility for one’s neighbours well-being. And, who doesn’t want to drive one of those trucks one day ;)
Each Austrian village hast there own fire brigade, and the communities have to finance the brigades. but the do more than fighting fire. They are also an association which organize events, organize kids events etc. they are supporting columns of every town/ village in case of social life. of course it`s also a space, where mostly men can share there sparetime and have fun too. Without them, Austria wouldn`t be possible to be as safe as it is. so all the respect goes to the volunteers, their families AND their employer, because a lot of them say, if there is a mission, go help and come back if you are finished. In my own village we only hire men, who are fine to join the fire brigade or red cross as volunteers. This is because, if somethings happen, they are around and can help!
I did not find exact number, but we , here in Slovakia, have 3200 active Firemen (4200 in total with administrative and maintenance) who do this as a job, but we have 2200 voluntary firebrigades - then my guess is more than 85% is voluntary similar as in Czech Republic or France.
As a chilean I feel the need to mention that in Chile all firefighters are volunteers. Though while reading the Austria section of 'geography of firefighting' wikipedia page, I would say that Austria does have more volunteers.
Other things the volunteer firefighter organizations are known for is quenching their seemingly neverending thirst for alcohol, beginning with the age between 13 and 15 years^^ But yeah they do a great job. A friend of mine is a volunteer firefighter and he told me that being a volunter firefighter means you basically have a free pass on leaving your actual job during your work shift, if the emergancy demands your service. Maybe you should make a video about "How does the Austrian Military Service work" - you'll also be quite surprised.
More interessting is, that all of that is an Evolution of the idea after the big Fire of Vienna in 1683. Since 1860 Vienna has a professional Firedepartment which counts to on of the oldest world wide and functioned often as rolemodel.
In germany only cities with more than around 50k inhabitants will have a professional fire brigade. Smaller cities can have a voluntary one. Larger cities will usually also have a voluntary one, which is called in if they professional brigade needs more people during an incident. as a volunteer, if you are called to a fire during work, you will immediately stop working and help with the fire. You still get paid by your employer during that time. Your employer will then later be reimbursed for your wages. So roughly speaking: you are paid your normal day job wage for your work in the fire brigade, as long as the fire is during working hours. Other things the fire brigade does: * Opening doors for medical services, if someone is missing * Organizaing rescue of injured people from very high or deep places (towers, mines) * Some cities have a divers squad. They might be tasked with recovering evidence in a criminal case from a lake. in some states the fire brigade is also responsible for operating the ambulances, though there are usually other organizations helping out with that. Most of those are non-profit.
cities with more than 100k have to have a professional FD, but many towns in the range between 50k and 100k inhabitants will have a volunteer department with a a small full-time crew. But there are also some smaller towns which have an actual professional FD as well
I know im a year late but its not that rare to have someone in your workplace or a teacher at your school just leave to go and deal with a fire or car crash call depending on where you live here in austria. Also fun fact we men are "forced" to choose between 6 months of millitary training or 9 months of "ambulance work" (dont remember the right word) Another thing is we start to work at 15 after 9 mandatory years of school, and we have something called "Lehre" during work which takes 3 years with 10 weeks of school in each year of work and a finals test until we are officially a worker (or in other word we are working in a company for 3 years with less pay than the normal worker (it increases over the 3 years) and get taught how to do the job and basic work stuff with more in depth learning in those few school weeks) i hope whoever reads this can understand what im trying to say xD
When ever you here the sirene sound beside they regulare Satarday sound checks you know there is a fire or more often a excident at the Autobahn. After a mission with deads - especially children - members need psychological help. As my village is direct at the Autobahn there has to be the red cross helicopter involved to bring rescuded casualities direct to hospitals in Vienna.
Not sure if this is in every company the fire fighters work, but in the cases and companies I know, the firefighters are allowed to leave their work immidietly in a case of an emergency call. The have a beeber and when this thing goes off, they just leave ... and even if they left for hours or the whole day, they still got paid by the company. Great and fair! :)
In Salzburg, where I live there are 2 professional fire brigades and 5 volunteer brigades. I never knew tere are only 6 professional brigades all over Austria. I thought every bigger city has one, like in Germany...
if you want to see dedicated firefighters, look for video on TH-cam of Croation firefighters watchng their national side in 2018 football world cup in a tense nailbiting penatly shootout in qtr finals against Russia - only 3 minutes long but give a new definition to Professional firefighters!
Probably the most important thing to mention: it doesn't matter if you are a firefighter on paid basis or a voluntary firefighter: the training you have to go through is the same for both. At least in The Netherlands it is and I would be very surprised if Austria (and many other European countries) is different.
Quiet simular to Germany. We got around 93,5% Volunteers in the "Freiwillige Feuerwehr" and it`s not just to learn how to fight against fire and safe lifes. It`s more a social thing. But when it comes to the worst case you know they are all well trained and know what to do.
It's pretty similar in Germany, except the funding is mainly the job of every city itself. At least for all the normal stuff to be able to counteract fires etc. There is some state or federal funding for stuff/vehicles that are necessary to ensure "Katastrophenschutz" = larger disaster capabilities. So for example forest fires or floods usually don't just happen in one city but more of like in a region. Therefore the money to have stuff for that cases comes frome state and federal level too. In general the employers get money back from the state, if they allow their employees to leave for emergency calls. I think this way of fire service goes back to the medival times, when people in citys kept an bucket ready in case there was a fire in town. And then the would form chains of people to transport water buckets. Everybody had to be engaged if he wanted to get help, if his house burned. Then of course there were the wars etc, the technic improved with pumps etc but the principle remained. It's just financially inefficienct to have fulltime employed fire fighters in smaller towns.
in the villages 20 years ago there were also draftings half draft half hey there is the fire brigade it would be nice if you volunteer ( when yoru 16 years old)
Growing up in an austrian mountain village it is expected for all the young teenage boys to work for the feuerwehr and start playing an instrument in the blasmusik band. Kind of growing up in the community.
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Yes, we are very proud especially of our young generations that still are motivated to be a part of something bigger: of a community. Austria is a very small country but extremely innovative. Close to where I live in Austria is a small but finde company: Rosenbauer. They are developing and manufacturing equipment for firefighters in the whole world. All big airports in the world are using their special trucks and equipment made in Austria. Here is a commercial of them: th-cam.com/video/8GymOcIHSg0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qGjnyfFeQ59hsMkl
You do see that in other countries...it's common in Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, UK, Australia, Argentina and many others...nothing to do with "Germanic roots"
@@vkdrk I look up some statistics on firefighters in the UK*, and the ratio between full time firefighters and on-call fighters is more like 2:1, and those on-call firefighters still get payed for the time they work as firefighters, so they are somewhere between part-time and volunteer firefighters. * Fire and rescue workforce and pensions statistics: England, April 2019 to March 2020
4:36 No, i don't think that the funding is similar to the US. The fire brigade organice something call "Feuerwehr Fest" (fire brigade event) wich sounds harmless. But in reallity its a beer-tent full of teenager and they drink beer (=beer in Austria is legal from the age of 16) till they lost the language 😉 That's btw the answer on your question how the recruit as well...
Not only fire brigade. Our ambulance system works the exact same way. So that comes on top, whe have a ton of volunteer paramedics, water rescue the same - mostly volunteers.
And alot of Zivildiener :D
@@ownageDan Male state slaves are always welcome :)
and... Austria is world leader in the development of high tech firefighting equipment :-D
@@thomaslorenz6036 doesn't mean that all the fire trucks are top-notch high-end ones. Quite the opposite.
@@chaosengine4597 haha, absolutely
We call it the "Freiwillige Feuerwehr" and for comparison: there are around 17000 villages in Austria and there are around 4500 volunteer fire brigades, so more than every 4th village has one
The austrian fire departments also regularly send help if another country needs help with forrest fires(France, North Macedonia), floods, earthquakes(Turkey) etc. These long deployments(with weekly rotation) are also voluntary.
"There is a country in Europe..." Almost every country here works that way 😄
What are the other countries that don't? I know that the UK is one of them, we don't really have volunteer firefighters. We do have retained firefighters, who are like volunteers in that they have other jobs and get called out to fires, but they get paid for every fire they respond to. We only really have volunteer firefighters in some very rural areas but only 3 fire brigades have volunteer units. Even our retained firefighters are more sort of like backup. There may be stations where there are only retained firefighters but I think what is often the case is that there will be one engine manned by professional fireman and then if they need more people to respond then they call the retained firemen
but some don't, that's why it's cool to take a closer look at it. Thus Norway is entirely different, also Sweden is quite different
when he said "There is a country in Europe..." he meant that there is a country in Europe with 99% of the fire brigade being volunteers, which isn't the case in other European countries.
@@marxistvalorie Yes, I understood. The majority of European countries have more volunteers than professionals: Portugal 94%, Germany 97%, Austria 99%, Czechia 87%, France 88%...
@@Thorium_Thwell yes, so there only is one country with 99%
1:12 Damn, don't scare me like that. I'm an Austrian volunteer firefighter and this sound made me jump, as that's the exact sound my phone notifies me with when there's a fire emergency.
Immer bereit 👍
I'm 14, I' m living in Austria and I'm also a part of the fire brigade
Super! 👏
Cool Jakob , just keep going ..... and THANK YOU
Wasserentnahmestelle: der Bach.
@@deadvodka Alternative Wasserentnahmestelle: Der große Schwimmteich vom Nachbarn
the red cross and similar organisations are also working on basis of volunteers. very few paramedics are not volunteers.
Yes they are top. Also small villages like my own, have mostly top tear equipment.
Most times they get around the village once a year and ask for a small donation - and you are happy to give them a few bucks. Because you dont want to see them in your house in full gear and blue lights everywhere. 😉
But if you need them, they will come and they do a great job. I was a volunteer ambulance emergency driver for about 10 years - I say THANK YOU to all those volunteers around the world
First: great reaction again 👍🏻😎 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 second: it’s a father to son thing, most families got one in the fire department 👍🏻 and don’t forget the fire department’s Fest in every town, with amount of beer, next time when i drive to work, i gonna send ya a pic from our volunteers fire department 👍🏻 third: my cousin is in the fire department in Graz/Austria (second largest city) 😂😂😂 as an employee
It's pretty much the same here in Slovenia. Fire Service is probably the most respected organisation in the country, for various and obvious reasons. These guys are a bunch of dedicated, selfless and proud people.
Končno še en slovenc
@@anejgrujic320 No, ni nas prav veliko, ampak se ne damo!
Ola, klapa se zbira😂🎉
+1 še z moje strani :D
on so many "this is how its in austria" videos i find some slovenian saying "we are actually like that too" lol
and i dont even think you are lying i think you are very simliar to us in many ways
It works similar in many countries in Europe, here in Poland around 97% are volunteer - around 500 profesional (PSP) and 16000 volunteer brigades (OSP) out of which around 5000 are connected to same emergency system as profesional ones. By the way here is a video of fire truck parade from Poland, most of those are volunteer brigade trucks including some historical ones as volunteers often buy older, used trucks from west europe or even US: th-cam.com/video/wQiIzYXVjzk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the report on our work at the Austrian Volunteer Fire Service!
Like many others who have commented here, I am an Austrian volunteer firefighter myself.
How does the Austrian volunteer fire department work? Quite simply, we believe that helping each other is the key to a better society and community! So when someone needs help, we help when we can, at any time of the day or night. And because this is something you can't do alone, the country and each region supports this work with financial resources, for this there are laws and rules that ensure that the fire departments have enough equipment and the operation works.
really , funny why i had to leave austria with the age of 17 , from all this alcoholism and class violence , austrian volunteerism is just for show , men from "wrong families" use this to get the chance for a good job for networking reasons , not everybody is allowed to join , or gets pushed out, at small places it gets a real mafiafeel , when you have to sell your soul to drunk monkeys and some pedos,..... to belong to the group
dont forget our fireservices are a leftover from our old version of sozialism, like the Autobahn
Portuguese firefighters (both urban and forest firefighters) are also mostly volunteers with other actual professions.
Only Lisbon, Porto (the bigger cities) and maybe a few more towns have professional fire brigades. But even there you will find volunteer brigades acting alongside them.
Furthermore we have the Feuerwehr Jugend, which means Firefighter- Youth. They start at the age of 10 and they start with basic training and and learning about the equipment. They also have competitions of knowledge and some sport activities around the firefighter stuff.
In most Villages the local Firebrigade, whith the local sportsclub are the only institutions which hosts some small festivals for the village.
Number of fire departments and active members in Germany (as of December 31, 2020): 22,020 voluntary fire departments with 1,006,638 members, while the proportion of professional fire departments (called Berufsfeuerwehr in German) is only 110 with 35,041 members.
Then there are plant fire departments (Werkfeuerwehr called in German, fire department units in industrial companies or Airports) whose number amounts to 755 with 33,451 members.
wir waren immer die besseren sozialisten , drum haben wir ihn euch auch geschickt ;P
After 25 years in the volunteer fire department, I joined the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief. With the Federal Agency for Technical Relief, 98 out of 100 members are volunteers. It has to be said quite clearly: Germany would be lost without all the people who work on a voluntary basis.
Especially since, from what i remember, Laws, Regulations etc we have here in Germany make it impossible currently to establish a professional Fire Department in a City with less than 100.000 People (though there are a few Exceptions who had one with only 90.000 to 100.000 People living in them) 🤔
Though it is problematic since less and less People join Volunteer Fire Departments, THW or other Organisations nowadays..
@@Sheppart92 some smaller towns with way less than 100k inhabitants have established a professional FD a long time ago and kept it to this day. Some of those towns have as few as 50k or even just 30k inhabitants
@@EnjoyFirefighting Ah well i might be a bit rusty with the Details, i once read the "Feuerwehrmagazin" every Month but i stopped buying them over 10 Years ago regularly so i only remember that Berufsfeuerwehren could be established in big Citys with at least 100k People, though i do remember that some Volunteer Fire Departments (Freiwillige Feuerwehren) had established a Sort of System like a Berufsfeuerwehr for bigger Citys.
@@Sheppart92 some medium scale towns with a volunteer FD have a small full-time crew, staffing the station during certain times of the day or 24/7. But those small / medium size town professional fire departments aren't anything new which has happened in the past few years, it's rather the exact opposite with them being old grown. Thus towns like Stralsund have a professional FD despite not being anywhere near the mark of 100k inhabitants
@@Sheppart92 , so nicht ganz richtig. Görlitz hat Stand 2021 55519 Einwohner und trotzdem eine Berufsfeuerwehr.Das hängt aber mit der altstadt zusammen, viele alte fachwerkhäuser und andere, sehr alte Gebäude. Die Altstadt von Görlitz ist Kulturdenkmal. Weitere Beispiele dazu wären Gießen, Lünen, Eisenach, Minden, Cuxhaven oder Iserlohn.
Check on the current events that took place the last few days in Austria. The flood from the heavy rain! Many thanks to our amazing fire department and all the volunteers for their tireless commitment!
In small villages, all male and sometimes also some females are firefighters. When you are born there, first thing you have to do is sign up to the fire brigade, after that you can learn how to crawl. In Austrias capital Vienna live 25% of all Austrians. Here the work is done mostly by a professional fire brigade.
They do not bring the community together, they are one of the expressions of a community that is already together and working as intended.
There are many other Volunteer organizations in Austria, and neighbors still help each other.
that is the illusion , its only a leftover from not so distant times like the Autobahn , and we know how that ended , and please mißunderstand me right, the idea is wicked , but this volunteer club has also a political and a corruption aspect plus ist one of the reasons for unhinged alcoholism in austria , example if your familie is stupid and doesnt put you in the club , u will get no job in the village because its the place where you sell your soul for vitamin B (network) ,...
It is common in Central Europe. In the neighboring Czech Republic, every village or town has a legal obligation to establish a fire department or to have a contract with a unit from a neighboring village. Even in our small village of 140 inhabitants, we have a volunteer fire department. Depending on the size of the village, the size and equipment of the units and the size of their area of operation also vary. Professional firefighters are in cities. It is up to the central dispatcher which combination of units to call for a specific incident.
Our volunteer fire department was founded in 1899.
Yes, thas is true czech republic has 85% of firefighters voluntary, and i our region half of volunteers are uder 18 years old mainly because of firesport, we have many local and national competitions
Love seeing Austrian content!
Love your content, greetings from Austria :3
I‘m a volunteer firefighter since 1983 and it‘s honour to be.
in France there are 78% volunteer firefighters, 17% professional and 5% military, the latter are in Paris and Marseille, in the city in the south of France, they are called sailor-firefighters because they are attached to the French navy
The reason why we do have such a high percentage of volunteers is, that the fire brigade (by the way the ambulance too, but not mentioned in the video) is some sort of after school Club life activity for young teenagers , especially in the rural countrysides. There they make friends and forge compagnionships which is why many of them stay in fire brigade service till old age. To be honest. Without our volunteers in both fire Brigade and ambulance our system won't work. So they are highly respected in our country
Hey @IWrocker an Austrian here, we've a pretty cool fire fighter system. There even exists exceptions for truck drivers for driving a fire brigade. And we have almost all volunteers. If you've gotten a job and you are also an volunteer firefighter you are under a ton of exceptions in terms of laws for workers. You can leave immediately and police don't mind fast driving for fire fighters if they gat 'the call' (fire sirene).
And as a fire fighter your are a hell of a beer drinker usually LOL
most volunteers are also on standby even at work.
when they get the signal the conpany usually honours it and lets them go.
Australian influence noted! "Good on ya" says Ian. Kudos to all firefighters across the world!
in ambulance service also most of the people on weekends and nightshifts are volunteers
In Germany, the members of the fire department also serve voluntarily. In a society that knows no cohesion and everyone is only concerned about their own advantage, something like this is unthinkable.
Wouldn't dare to say that Norwegians would be self-centered, but they don't have a volunteer FD
It is similar in Germany. Here we have only 113 professional Fire Dept. all others are are volunteers (94%).
In my village with around 450 people we have about 50 voluntary firemen if not more. in this kind of Villages its pretty normal to be part of either the Fire Brigade, local Music, Sport, Hunter and Fisher or several other clubs. Also they take it very seriously. One Time at a birtday party there was an alarm and about half of our guests were just gone the next second.
Even the paramedic service works that way in Austria and i assume in the rest of Europe as well.
I started as youth firefighter with the age of 11. Pretty cool community!
Google says in Germany it's 96% volunteers (number of fire brigades, not staff).
We have a aerial ladder 3 villages away, and it's supposed to be at the place within 20 min everywhere. And it's able and of course allowed to drive 120km/h! One of the fastest trucks on the streets.
Fun fact: In Austria, the ambulance is not part of the fire department. Like in Germany
in most of Germany ambulances and other EMS units aren't part of the fire department either?!
@@EnjoyFirefighting Entschuldigung habe das nicht gewusst. Habe es irgendwo gesehen dass die Rettung Teil der Feuerwehr ist in Deutschland.
@@Gommuten das trifft mancherorts zu, aber selbst dort ist die Feuerwehr dann auch nur einer von mehreren Leistungserbringern, und nicht der alleinige Anbieter. In den meisten Gegenden gibts keine Berufsfeuerwehr, und selbst unter den Berufsfeuerwehren gibt es viele, die keinerlei Rettungsdienst betreiben.
@@EnjoyFirefighting Ok habe nur Feuerwehr auf nem Rettungswagen irgendwo gesehen
im from a really tiny village(ard 200ppl) in austria and we got a fire brigade counting around 50 members. This works by introducing the children to the hobby at the age of 10 which is when u start to learn about fire prevention, how to put out small fires(using fire extinguishers etc.), how to work the radio and get ur first uniforms. At that age you already start competing with other fire youth clubs in the nearby villages. When you reach the age of 15 (sometimes earlier) you enter basic training and once you reached the age of 16 you start responding to calls.
We get those insane ratios of participants by the fire brigade being the main cause of comradery in the village. Most of our celebrations are held at our fire station. However our 24/7 ln call system really does not take much of our time since we work a ridiculously little amount of calls per year.
So our fire brigade is really more of a social club that happens to have a purpose.
A friend of me is involved in the fire brigade in his community. an other friend bought a fire truck from Austria. They are quite popular in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands. We also have a volunteer fire department. And Lunteren fire brigade. Make their own TH-cam videos. Lunteren is a small village on the Veluwe. A 30 minute drive from Spakenburg. Where I live, I have also been coming on holiday to the Veluwe for years. put me down somewhere. And in 5 to 10 minutes I know where I am, without telephone or internet.
Thumbnail says 99% Volunteer
In the Background: "Berufsfeuerwehr Salzburg"
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Volunteering is mostly a thing in the countryside. Big cities have professionals who do it as their main job.
Czech service has proffesionals, and volunteers as well. But they are separate units. You can recognize them easily, the state owned drive much worse fire engines :)
In the video it wasn’t that clear but at the age of firefighters in active duty is 15-65, although for scba training you have to be 16+ and be in active duty for one year.
More Austria!
There are 700,000 volunteer firefighters in Poland, of which 228,394 are ready to act at any time . In addition, of course, there is the state fire department that coordinates their activities and trains volunteer firefighters . The state fire brigade in Poland is only 30,000 people. Every village and small town with less than 10,000 inhabitants relies on volunteer firefighters
Why it's so popular? It's about playing with big vehicels and after that drinking a lot of alcohol.
There are so many volunteers because of a thing we call "Saufen" which is heavily done at any fire brigade
In Italy it's something similar for ambulances, maybe thanks to the fact that "Red Cross" was invented in Italy, there are a lot of different non-profit organizations on voluntary basis like Red cross, White cross, Blue cross, Green cross, and other "crosses" basically any color you can imagine(seriously I even spotted even like brown and purple crosses). but also other non-profit organizations like some veteran associations ( like the alpini/carabinieri) and even some religious entities do manage and crew ambulances.
They are all integrated and directed by a unified system responding to the emergency calls 112 that can also dispatch police forces and firefighters depenging on the kind of emergency. These ambulances pick the patients up and carry them to the hospital, usually the closest being the default destination, sometimes the most appropriate for the medical problem faced (a medic can overrule the default destination for example if the patient is facing let's say a cardiac problem the medic can divert the ambulance to an hospital with a dedicated cardiac unit instead of a more generic hospital)
Time ago hospitals used to have their own ambulances but apparently this has become a rare thing today.
Also similar is civil protection specific for disaster responses like floods, heartquakes etc.
The intresting thing about how the fire brigade and Austrian society is the Vereine
They are a big part of our society and they're kinda like clubs so just a lot of people with the simmilar intrests or jobs.
For example in my municipality we have a Farmers Verein a Bee keepers Verein a Stadtmusik (City music band ( every municipality has one of those)) and the Katholic Youth (of which I am a part of)
They meet regulary but also organise events for the Community and are a respected part of every municipality.
And by far the most repected of them all is the Freiwillige Feuerwehr ( eng.: the voluteer fire brigade)
In Germany about 95 % of all active firefighters are volunteers. There around 22,000 voluntary fire brigades (some with a professional commander or a small professional staff) with about 1,006,000 members, 112 professional fire brigades (a bit over 35,000 members) and a bit over 750 plant fire brigades (around 33,500 members). There are also more than 20,500 youth fire brigades with around 270,000 members - that's one way of recruiting volunteers. Before 1995 some municipalities could charge a fire brigade fee from male and healthy citizens of military age which did not participate in the fire brigade. In case of a fire alarm volunteers are entitled to be releases from work immediately, they can not be fired, but have to be paid by the employer (who can get compensation for that). Volunteers have also to be released from work for training courses.
The voluntary fire brigade of my home town got 2020 for the first time a professional commander paid by the town. It consists of 270 volunteers in 4 departments. I found a video showing a fire alarm situation from there: th-cam.com/video/0sp25hBS1lU/w-d-xo.html Around 1:20 the first volunteers are arriving, around 3:40 the first truck is leaving.
In Germany, you keep getting paid by your employer while working as a volunteer firefighter. However, if your absence from work exceeds certain limits (>7 h in a two-week period), your employer can get reimbursed by the state. Also another perk that played a role until 2011 when general conscription into the military ended, if you had pledged your services for the fire brigade for a certain number of years, you were exempt from military service. My guess is that that was also the case in many other European countries.
its very common for kids on the country side to join the firebrigade like a club and they do meets (kinda like scouting groups too), also comes from boys being forced into military or civil conspriction (firebrigade is not part of civil but it explains the respect for civil courage). Its not weird and rather seen as cool to be in the firebrigade or paramedics
Additionally our military is quite good at disaster response (the main thing they are good for tbh), so in cases like floodings, or storms we not only have a lot of firefighters, but also experienced military engineers.
This made me look up the local stats, In the Netherlands about 80% volunteers, only 63% in Belgium. Cant find a direct reason why this is so different have to look into that, or maybe someone can tell me ✌️❤️
different tactical approach, different department structure, different legal requirements for response areas, ...
@@EnjoyFirefighting thanks ✌️❤️
Gott zur Ehr, dem Nächsten zur Wehr!
volunteers, but extremely well trained. Even when they cooperatete with police, Bergwacht or Technisches Hilfswerk. And across borders. Very fast response. On alarm they may immediately leave their main job, and the employers get payed for the missing time.
A major part of the work is also, to save people out of their wrecked cars after an accident.
I am living in Vienna. In the last years three of my friends moved to the country side. Meanwhile all of them are members of the volunteer brigade. It’s a social thing but also taking responsibility for one’s neighbours well-being. And, who doesn’t want to drive one of those trucks one day ;)
Each Austrian village hast there own fire brigade, and the communities have to finance the brigades. but the do more than fighting fire. They are also an association which organize events, organize kids events etc. they are supporting columns of every town/ village in case of social life. of course it`s also a space, where mostly men can share there sparetime and have fun too. Without them, Austria wouldn`t be possible to be as safe as it is. so all the respect goes to the volunteers, their families AND their employer, because a lot of them say, if there is a mission, go help and come back if you are finished. In my own village we only hire men, who are fine to join the fire brigade or red cross as volunteers. This is because, if somethings happen, they are around and can help!
I did not find exact number, but we , here in Slovakia, have 3200 active Firemen (4200 in total with administrative and maintenance) who do this as a job, but we have 2200 voluntary firebrigades - then my guess is more than 85% is voluntary similar as in Czech Republic or France.
proud to be a member of that 99%
As a chilean I feel the need to mention that in Chile all firefighters are volunteers. Though while reading the Austria section of 'geography of firefighting' wikipedia page, I would say that Austria does have more volunteers.
Other things the volunteer firefighter organizations are known for is quenching their seemingly neverending thirst for alcohol, beginning with the age between 13 and 15 years^^
But yeah they do a great job. A friend of mine is a volunteer firefighter and he told me that being a volunter firefighter means you basically have a free pass on leaving your actual job during your work shift, if the emergancy demands your service.
Maybe you should make a video about "How does the Austrian Military Service work" - you'll also be quite surprised.
In hungary we are really simmalar we also have a tons of volunters I also prepare to become a volunter firefighter but we are less suported
More interessting is, that all of that is an Evolution of the idea after the big Fire of Vienna in 1683. Since 1860 Vienna has a professional Firedepartment which counts to on of the oldest world wide and functioned often as rolemodel.
In germany only cities with more than around 50k inhabitants will have a professional fire brigade. Smaller cities can have a voluntary one. Larger cities will usually also have a voluntary one, which is called in if they professional brigade needs more people during an incident.
as a volunteer, if you are called to a fire during work, you will immediately stop working and help with the fire. You still get paid by your employer during that time. Your employer will then later be reimbursed for your wages. So roughly speaking: you are paid your normal day job wage for your work in the fire brigade, as long as the fire is during working hours.
Other things the fire brigade does:
* Opening doors for medical services, if someone is missing
* Organizaing rescue of injured people from very high or deep places (towers, mines)
* Some cities have a divers squad. They might be tasked with recovering evidence in a criminal case from a lake.
in some states the fire brigade is also responsible for operating the ambulances, though there are usually other organizations helping out with that. Most of those are non-profit.
cities with more than 100k have to have a professional FD, but many towns in the range between 50k and 100k inhabitants will have a volunteer department with a a small full-time crew. But there are also some smaller towns which have an actual professional FD as well
And dont forget the mountain-rescue.
VERY interssting: History of Austria, in terms of borders over the last 17 decades!
Here in Czechia is firefighting one of the most popular village sports. 🤣🤣🤣
They do door to door collections around christmas. On of tthe few I alway donate to.
I know im a year late but its not that rare to have someone in your workplace or a teacher at your school just leave to go and deal with a fire or car crash call depending on where you live here in austria.
Also fun fact we men are "forced" to choose between 6 months of millitary training or 9 months of "ambulance work" (dont remember the right word)
Another thing is we start to work at 15 after 9 mandatory years of school, and we have something called "Lehre" during work which takes 3 years with 10 weeks of school in each year of work and a finals test until we are officially a worker (or in other word we are working in a company for 3 years with less pay than the normal worker (it increases over the 3 years) and get taught how to do the job and basic work stuff with more in depth learning in those few school weeks) i hope whoever reads this can understand what im trying to say xD
When ever you here the sirene sound beside they regulare Satarday sound checks you know there is a fire or more often a excident at the Autobahn. After a mission with deads - especially children - members need psychological help. As my village is direct at the Autobahn there has to be the red cross helicopter involved to bring rescuded casualities direct to hospitals in Vienna.
Not sure if this is in every company the fire fighters work, but in the cases and companies I know, the firefighters are allowed to leave their work immidietly in a case of an emergency call. The have a beeber and when this thing goes off, they just leave ... and even if they left for hours or the whole day, they still got paid by the company. Great and fair! :)
In Salzburg, where I live there are 2 professional fire brigades and 5 volunteer brigades. I never knew tere are only 6 professional brigades all over Austria. I thought every bigger city has one, like in Germany...
You should look into the rural fire service in Australia
if you want to see dedicated firefighters, look for video on TH-cam of Croation firefighters watchng their national side in 2018 football world cup in a tense nailbiting penatly shootout in qtr finals against Russia - only 3 minutes long but give a new definition to Professional firefighters!
In Germany also every village has a vollunteer fire Fighter Base
Probably the most important thing to mention: it doesn't matter if you are a firefighter on paid basis or a voluntary firefighter: the training you have to go through is the same for both. At least in The Netherlands it is and I would be very surprised if Austria (and many other European countries) is different.
Quiet simular to Germany. We got around 93,5% Volunteers in the "Freiwillige Feuerwehr" and it`s not just to learn how to fight against fire and safe lifes. It`s more a social thing. But when it comes to the worst case you know they are all well trained and know what to do.
It's pretty similar in Germany, except the funding is mainly the job of every city itself. At least for all the normal stuff to be able to counteract fires etc. There is some state or federal funding for stuff/vehicles that are necessary to ensure "Katastrophenschutz" = larger disaster capabilities. So for example forest fires or floods usually don't just happen in one city but more of like in a region. Therefore the money to have stuff for that cases comes frome state and federal level too. In general the employers get money back from the state, if they allow their employees to leave for emergency calls.
I think this way of fire service goes back to the medival times, when people in citys kept an bucket ready in case there was a fire in town. And then the would form chains of people to transport water buckets. Everybody had to be engaged if he wanted to get help, if his house burned. Then of course there were the wars etc, the technic improved with pumps etc but the principle remained. It's just financially inefficienct to have fulltime employed fire fighters in smaller towns.
Always wanted to be a volunteer firefighter but was never aloud due to being asthmatic.
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in the villages 20 years ago there were also draftings half draft half hey there is the fire brigade it would be nice if you volunteer ( when yoru 16 years old)
Hello from Austria😊
Growing up in an austrian mountain village it is expected for all the young teenage boys to work for the feuerwehr and start playing an instrument in the blasmusik band. Kind of growing up in the community.
A VERY tempting thing in Austria: ERZBERG RODEO ;)
i live in austria and you can tell every 25th man wants to drink some beers and get some rest from his wife for a day or two xD
You'll find old firetrucks, new ones and some demo action if you look here. "Berufsfeuerwehr Salzburg 05.10.2019"
i was a Firefighter in Austria and our Motto was:
Den einzigen Brand den ich lösche ist mein eigener
I think you should react to the Welt documentary about Brabus mercedes benz tuning. It's here on youtube, but it's pretty long compared to the videos you react to usually
Other suggestons about Austria: Freud, Einstein, Schiller, aso, aso
I would love to tell you so much about the Feuerwehr but im better in speaking than writing english.
Anyways great video and love from austria 🇦🇹
i mean we can say, volunteer can "dissrespect" on a fun base, we do the job of firefighters who does it for living in our spare time xD
One of the reasons I am happy and honoured to live in Austria
the reason why so many a volunteering is beer
Yes, we are very proud especially of our young generations that still are motivated to be a part of something bigger: of a community. Austria is a very small country but extremely innovative. Close to where I live in Austria is a small but finde company: Rosenbauer. They are developing and manufacturing equipment for firefighters in the whole world. All big airports in the world are using their special trucks and equipment made in Austria. Here is a commercial of them: th-cam.com/video/8GymOcIHSg0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qGjnyfFeQ59hsMkl
At my home we have so much members cause we have no more Bars 😅
its beautiful that humans care for each other. you does not see that in other countries. Germanic roots ftw.
You do see that in other countries...it's common in Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, UK, Australia, Argentina and many others...nothing to do with "Germanic roots"
@@vkdrk In my country 50-70% of firefighters are volunteers 🤔
@@vkdrk I look up some statistics on firefighters in the UK*, and the ratio between full time firefighters and on-call fighters is more like 2:1, and those on-call firefighters still get payed for the time they work as firefighters, so they are somewhere between part-time and volunteer firefighters.
* Fire and rescue workforce and pensions statistics: England, April 2019 to March 2020
4:36 No, i don't think that the funding is similar to the US. The fire brigade organice something call "Feuerwehr Fest" (fire brigade event) wich sounds harmless. But in reallity its a beer-tent full of teenager and they drink beer (=beer in Austria is legal from the age of 16) till they lost the language 😉
That's btw the answer on your question how the recruit as well...
im one myself :) love your vids!