TUM Fire Department

The Fire department TU Munich is a factory fire department at the Technical University of Munich. In addition to the fire department of the Bundeswehr University Munich, it is the only full-time fire department at a German university. It exists since 1979 and has 58 employees working in three shifts as well as in the day shifts. Its location is the research site of the TU in Garching near Munich. Organizationally, the fire department is part of the Central Department 1 - Unit 15 - of the Technical University of Munich.

The purposes of the TU fire department include, apart from fire protection and firefighting on the Garching campus, also general fire department-specific assistance, for example in traffic accidents. Their focus is on fire safety training and respiratory protection training for TU employees, knowledge of the fire alarm systems, maintenance of 3,000 fire extinguishers and checking hydrants on campus.

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