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On Monday we were visiting some of the eight stations which make up Krakow Municipal Fire Service - basically the stations responsible for covering the actual city of Krakow - an area of around 126 square miles.
When we originally planned our visit we wrote to the Krakow service for permission to visit and they replied offering us a guide to take us around.
Our guides for the Monday were three officers - unlike the US and the UK, in Poland you can enter the fire service at officer level depending on your education and qualifications. One of our guides was a real pretty girl in her 20s who held the rank similar to that of Battalion Chief, however her role was that of Hazmat Specialist because she had studied chemistry and university. She had no training in firefighting as such.
So, our first stop was Station No.7 - they normally ride two pumpers and an aerial, but only one pumper was on station - the second and the aerial were out cutting down some dangerous branches at a nearby park.
This is a MAN LE with ISS Wawrzaszek bodywork, it was built in 2003
On Monday we were visiting some of the eight stations which make up Krakow Municipal Fire Service - basically the stations responsible for covering the actual city of Krakow - an area of around 126 square miles.
When we originally planned our visit we wrote to the Krakow service for permission to visit and they replied offering us a guide to take us around.
Our guides for the Monday were three officers - unlike the US and the UK, in Poland you can enter the fire service at officer level depending on your education and qualifications. One of our guides was a real pretty girl in her 20s who held the rank similar to that of Battalion Chief, however her role was that of Hazmat Specialist because she had studied chemistry and university. She had no training in firefighting as such.
So, our first stop was Station No.7 - they normally ride two pumpers and an aerial, but only one pumper was on station - the second and the aerial were out cutting down some dangerous branches at a nearby park.
This is a MAN LE with ISS Wawrzaszek bodywork, it was built in 2003
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