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Symposium “Rescue, Recovery and Fire-Fighting” The Product Unit Unimog/Speciality Vehicles, several Unimog System Partners and special superstructure manufacturers presented equipment packages for specific, efficient firefighting and catastrophe services At the “International Symposium for Forest Fire-Fighting and Catastrophe Protection” held at the DC Rastatt customer centre and also at a gravel pit in Ötigheim, Europe’s most difficult off-road testing ground, the Unimog’s very diverse applications for saving lives, extinguishing the most difficult fires and salvaging goods were demonstrated. More than 600 experts from fire brigades, technical emergency services, the police and other help, firefighting and catastrophe prevention organisations from all over the world had been invited to attend this event. They witnessed presentations by 17 Unimogs, from the U 300 to 500 off-road implement carrier models to the Unimog U 3000 to U 5000 extreme off-road chassis series – all of them equipped with country-specific special attachments from international manufacturers and recovery and salvaging equipment from Unimog’s European System Partners. The presentations showed these decision-makers in an impressive manner just what can be accomplished with the Unimog in extreme working and off-road conditions, when fighting forest fires, carry- 20 Unimog 2|2003
Martin Flammer of the Unimog sales department directed the “star parade” and presented the demonstrations in the Ötigheim gravel pit skilfully (left) Only the realistic work demonstrations were more spectacular than the “star parade” of working and rescue vehicles (strip at the bottom) combat fires quickly. In France alone, more than 1,000 Unimogs equipped for this purpose are in use; each of them can carry up to 5,000 litres of water. ing out repairs after floods, storms and earthquakes or in post-accident rescuing operations. In addition to extensive information on the Unimog’s technology and application options, practice-oriented talks by Lt. Col. Didier Besson (head of the firefighting centre in Royan, South-West France) and Helmut Moser (four-wheel-drive training teacher and publisher/editor-in-chief of the “4 Wheel Drive” magazine, from Wels, Austria) aroused lots of interest. “We would have been helpless in many situations without our Unimog” – this statement by Mr. Besson made it clear to the experts in attendance how important the “appropriate equipment” is when fighting fires and other catastrophes. Besson, who in the summer months is often busy fighting severe forest fires, emphasized “his” Unimog working vehicles’ technical concept, their reliability and the ability of the Unimog models U 3000 to U 5000 to be driven directly into the fires with their solid steel driver’s cab and special self-protection equipment, thus creating fire lanes. These Unimog units equipped with an extinguishing water tank are mainly used to The demonstrations in the Ötigheim gravel pit convinced firemen and catastrophy prevention staff of the merits of the new highly mobile Unimog chassis U 3000 - U 5000. The real-life working presentations of the U 300, U 400 and U 500 off-road implement carriers, too, were very impressive to watch – as a tank vehicle for emergency supplies of drinking water, as a hose tender, with a crane and/or winch, as a forest fire extinguishing vehicle, as a high-pressure cleaning unit or equipped with an excavatorloader or a special sand sack filling machine for flood disaster control. ■ Unimog 2|2003 21
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