ABOUT ZAGREB FIRE DEPARTMENT

Zagreb got its first fire department as far back as the second half of the 19th century. At the time local carpenters, blacksmiths, constructors and others began joining to the first Volunteer Fire Department. There were about 100 voluntary firefighters then, and the Department, founded in 1869, had been fulfilling the responsible service of fire protection in Zagreb for 40 years.

Even since 121 years ago, there were special control stations- so called fire-report stations, placed at the important places around the city. From these places it was possible to raise the fire-alarm at the fire station at any time of day or night.
At that time the area of Zagreb was divided into 5 inner and 5 outer districts. That kind of partition on fire districts enabled indicating the position of fire with special optic signalization from the Lotrscak Tower at Upper Town.

When Zagreb Volunteer Fire Department moved to new Fire station on Savska street on September the 20th 1909, the possibility of founding the Professional Fire watch came under serious consideration. Formal founding of Professional Fire watch was carried out on October 1st, 1910. with short ceremony. Two sections were formed. Each fireman was on duty for whole seven days and nights, and on the eighth day he was finally relieved of duty and free to rest (one day).
 

Today, Zagreb has five fire stations located all over the town:
• Fire Station 1- CENTAR
• Fire Station 2- ZITNJAK
• Fire Station 3- JANKOMIR
• Fire Station 4- NOVI ZAGREB
• Fire Station 5- DUBRAVA
 

Zagreb fire brigade has 358 employees all together. 332 of them are operational firefighters, with average age of 30.

There are 56 vehicles in the service, approximately 12 years old on average. In 2004, we had about 3000 interventions, of which some 55 % were fires and the rest were of technical variety (car-crashes, stuck elevators, etc.).

Address:

Name: Javna vatrogasna postrojba Grada Zagreba
Street: Savska ulica 1
Zip code: 10 000 Zagreb
Country: CROATIA

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