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Volunteer Fire Services Across Bavaria Report Heavy Year, Diverging Recruitment and Progress on New Stations

Incident hotspots are shaping staffing, training and infrastructure decisions across local brigades.

Overview

  • Lenggries logged 70 operations and 3,234 duty hours, added eleven young members and highlighted strong participation in training.
  • The Lenggries unit introduced a relief rotation to support Fall after a rise in accidents near the Sylvensteinsee.
  • Wangen recorded 34 callouts totaling 262 hours with frequent responses on the A95 and reaffirmed its leadership in new elections.
  • Grünbach moved its new firehouse project forward with tenders underway toward a planned 2027 handover, reported 65 deployments and noted fewer youth recruits.
  • In Landsberg’s review, the department unveiled a new swap-body carrier vehicle and reported 16,063 hours delivered by 114 active members.