14. Jul 2023 | Flood 2021, heavy rain
In the night of 14 to 15 July 2021, an extremely heavy rain event occurred in western Germany, in the course of which large parts of the Ahr valley were also destroyed. The flood disaster led to the death of 190 people and caused property damage of about 33 billion...
11. Jul 2023 | General, Heat
The heat warning system of the German Meteorological Service (DWD) is a well-known means of knowing when the heat is posing a danger to health. For today, for example, the Black Forest region is under a warning for extreme heat stress and the entire southwest of...
29. Jun 2023 | Vegetation Fires
According to measurements of the German Weather Service (DWD), the consequences of the fires in Canada can also be detected in Germany in a strongly weakened form. The particles from the forest fires, which have reached higher layers of the atmosphere, are brought to...
20. Jun 2023 | Flood 2021, heavy rain
The Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) has published a report on the follow-up to the operations in relation to the heavy rain event “Bernd”. All 668 local units of the THW were engaged in technical support after the 2021 flash floods in the Ahr...
4. May 2023 | Early Warning, Frühwarnung, Gastvortrag, Guest contribution, heavy rain, Members, Mitglieder, Starkregen
Disaster management must be trained so that aid arrives efficiently in the event of a crisis – also in international disaster management. In addition to field exercises in which technical equipment such as pumps are used, tabletop exercises are primarily used to...
