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Re:THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief by Xylakant on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:41AM (#27904162)
> Only large cities (> 100k residents, I think) need to have paid firefighters.

And even those cities often have volunteer firefighter departments. Berlin has multiple, roughly one per district.

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Re:THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief by martin_a on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:21AM (#27904808)
Volunteer firefighters in cities are often used to fill up the rows of the paid ones or to relieve them, so they can return to standing by for the next alarm and ensure short reaction times.

That's at least how it works in the city where my brother is working as a firefighter and I think it's comparable all over Germany.

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