Fire department operations; charging of reimbursement of costs

Reimbursement of costs can be claimed

• for fire-fighting and technical assistance operations in which the danger or damage was caused by the operation of motor vehicles, aircraft, rail vehicles or watercraft or a trailer intended to be carried by a motor vehicle, with the exception of operations or activities directly serving the rescue or recovery of people and animals,
• for other operations in the technical assistance service, with the exception of operations or activities that directly serve the rescue or recovery of people and animals,
• for special extinguishing agents used and services provided by third parties in the event of fires in commercial and industrial enterprises,
• for operations caused by a deliberate or grossly negligent hazard,
• in the event of deliberate or grossly negligent false alarms by the fire department or false alarms triggered by a private fire alarm system or by a system for making an automatic emergency call or for the automatic transmission of an emergency message to a permanently manned location (eCall),
• if a security service has forwarded an emergency call without verifiable evidence for the necessity of a fire department deployment and no action was required for the immediate rescue or recovery of people,
• for the deployment of an alarmed fire department to an operation for which the municipalities of the deployed fire departments can demand reimbursement of expenses, but whose own action was not required,
• for security guards.

In principle, the person who caused the danger or who is otherwise obliged to eliminate the danger is liable for costs, as well as, for example, anyone who has made use of the fire department's security guards or who has deliberately or grossly negligently triggered a false alarm, as well as the owner of a vehicle or owner of a device that has triggered a false alarm via eCall.