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Fire protection; implementation of preventive fire protection measures
Preventive fire protection is the umbrella term for all measures that prevent or limit the occurrence, spread and effects of fires in advance.
Stand: 04.08.2025. Link zum BayernPortal
Info
The Ordinance on the Prevention of Fires (VVB) on the legal basis of the State Criminal and Ordinance Act (LStVG) contains design and behavioral regulations with the aim of
- to designate fire-hazardous actions and conditions as such
- enforce their omission through the threat of a fine
- to provide material inspection regulations for carrying out municipal fire inspections in accordance with the Ordinance on Fire Inspections (FBV).
It contains specifications for the following areas, among others:
- Extinguishing fires
- Operation of fireplaces
- Outdoor fires
- Fuel residues
- Matches, small appliances, naked flames, lighting equipment
- Smoking, smoking ban
- Electrical appliances
- Internal combustion engines
- Flammable tools
- Solid fuels
- Storage of highly flammable solids in buildings
- Outdoor storage of flammable solids
- Outdoor storage of highly flammable crops
- Storage of spontaneously combustible crops
- Other spontaneously flammable substances
- Balloons
- Decorating rooms
- Street festivals, markets and events
- Unfinished roof spaces, hatches, chimneys
- escape routes
Administrative court action
Editorial responsibility: Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration (see BayernPortal)
Office for Fire and Disaster Protection
Head of office: Friedhelm Weidinger
Address
Äußere Brucker Straße 32
91052 Erlangen
Business hours
Accessibility is guaranteed at all times.