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Wolfgang Jendsch
The FirePublications/Feuerwehrpresse Wolfgang Jendsch was established in April 1989. It understands itself as a special agency for
Our EDP working place #1 (picture left): from here we send texts
and pictures into numerous European countries as well as into the USA.
Thinking, planing or organizicing we do from our working place
#2 (picture in the middle).
For conferencies or to relax with a coffee: guests and visitors
are really welcome in the rooms of the agency (picture right).
Center of work - "Wildland Firefighting" (Wald- und Flächenbrandbekämpfung):
Large wall maps in the office show the always current wildfire
situation in the ten western states of the USA. Marked are here not
only the areas of the large wildfires of the last years, but also the bases
of the tactical operation ressources like airtankers, fire-helicopters,
smokejumpers and hotshot-crews. Hundreds of needles on the maps are showing
the fire departments and stations, who have been visited in the last years.
At the same time the relevant wildland incidents will be registered
on computers and appropriate to the real situation shown in regular or
3D-maps. Electronic links make direct information connections to the units
on scene (Fire Departments, Air Attack) available, to webcams on Fire Airbases
or radio communication connections to the Command Center available.
On the right picture a 3D-computer view of the "Cerro Grande
Fire" in New Mexico, USA.
Working place #3 in the archiv room (picture left): look through,
sort out and file - nothing should be lost and all must be find again!
More than 45,000 colour slides of Fire- and Emergency Services
are managed in the picture archiv (picture right).
Our Productivities are:
FirePublications - New Name and new Logo!
The former "Presse- und Werbeagentur" (Press- and
Public Relations Agency) got a new name: "FirePublications"!
With this new name and with the respective logo we will
try to be equivalent in the context of our work and the growing international
contacts.
While the characters "FirePublications" marked
our letterheads, our emails and our webpages since a longer time, you will
find the embroidered logo with the stylized flame and the Europe-Stars
next on our duty clothes, on t-shirts and on other presentations.
"FirePublications", flame and stars will
now especially reflect our international views and orientations
in the context of the Fire- and Rescue Services in Germany, Europe
and in the USA.
The new logo "FirePublications" with flames and stars (left)
and the new shoulder patches of the official clothes (right).
Copyright: Wolfgang Jendsch
FirePublications - now patches with the new logo, too!
Now our patches with the new logo are available! They
were created especially for our work in foreign countries
and therefor they are equiped with english markings for "Feuerwehr"
and "Rettung" (FIRE RESCUE) and with the function term "Documentation"
(German: Dokumentation) as well.
Shirts, sweaters and jackets of the "FirePublications"
will be equiped with the new patches in future.
The new patch
Copyright: Wolfgang Jendsch
Documentation mobile - with GPS and Laptop
For our jobs out of office for taking pictures, preparing
reports and doing the documentation of fire- and emergency operations as
well as during fire training operations their was a four-wheel-drive
duty car type Opel-Frontera available. Up to March 1999 the car
was used as "Florian Konstanz 7" (radio call) for documentation and media
affairs (PIO) and up to the end of December 2002 and from October 2005
to August 2008 as "Florian Radolfzell 6/4" (DokuF) also for the Radolfzell
Fire Department to manage the incidents documentation.
Our new duty car is a Mitsubishi Pajero 2,5 TD
(see pictures below).
Also the new "mobile office" is equipped
among others with traffic-navigation, "Global Positioning System" (GPS;
two different systems), laptop with internet connection (GPRS) and "Graphic
Information System" (GIS), car phone/cell phone, cell phone communicator
(email, fax, SMS, internet), radio communication (11-m-Band "PIO 2", 70-cm
walkie-talkies "PIO 1-3"), reflex- and reflex-digitalcameras with all conveniences
as well as with fire- and emergency basic equipment
(fire
extinguishers, lighting material, light rescue equipment, medical equipment,
personell fire protection equipment).
The "mobile office" for our jobs all over in Europe: the Mitsubishi
Pajero is equipped among others with traffic-navigation, laptop and telekommunication
as well as with the neccessary equipment for photodocumentations.
Comparable to the Opel Frontera (photo below) the equipment of
the Mitsubishi is extended. So an additional video-recording installation
for the laptop is currently in test.
The first documentation car: Opel Frontera
Especially interesting out of "Fire Departments/Fire Service"
and "Emergency Service" may be our special picture archiv.
It contains numerous pictures about international Fire Departments,
Emergency Services and Rescue Organizations, their operations and
techniqual equipment. One of the topics of our photo dokumentation
is "wildland firefighting" in the western US states. Here are about
10,000 pictures about apparatus of US wildland fire agencies/departments
(also air tankers and fire helicopters) as well as about the fire operations
available.
Some examples about our topics you will find on
the following pages:
Wolfgang Jendsch - Personality
Wolfgang Jendsch, manager of the Press- and Public Relations
Agency,
here ready for incident documentation.
Wolfgang Jendsch (class 1950, born in Dortmund)
was active as a manager of Press- and publish relations departments of
different large companies (for example "Badischer Landesverband g.d.S.",
"Floral Island Mainau/Lake Constance") about ten years, before he made
himself
independent in 1989 as an special journalist and owner of a Press-
and Public Relations Agency.
Part-time Wolfgang Jendsch worked as a Paramedic (Rettungssanitäter)
in the Emergency Service, in a Dispatch Center and in a Disaster Task Force
for foreign countries, out of them as the head of the State Press Department
of the "Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe" (JUH) Baden-Württemberg (German emergency
service), as the Chief Press- and Informations Officer with the "Constance
County Association of German Red Cross" (DRK) and with the "County Fire
Association" (KFV) of Constance, as the Informations Officer (PIO) with
the "International Lake Constance Fire Association" (BFB) as well as the
Special Adviser for Press and Public Relations and as the Information Officer
(PIO) with the Radolfzell Fire Department.
Wolfgang Jendsch is member of the German Journalist
Union (dju) Baden-Württemberg.
For his achievements for the international fire service
Wolfgang
Jendsch was appointed in 1991 as a honorary member of the
"Ohniva Mini Repulika" (Prague/CSFR) of the Tzechoslovakia Fire Service.
The organization, official recognized with "Legitimace" B 6271 from the
Ministry of the Interior in Prague, understands itself as an international
working benificial association for the Tzecheslovakia Fire Service
under its president Milan Garncarz.
Allready the former president of the "German Fire Association"
(DFV), Albert Bürger (+) and the former president of the "International
Techniqual Commitee for Fire Prevention and Fire Service" (CTIF), Colonel
Robert Dollinger (+), are honorary members of the "Ohniva Mini Republica".
In 1998 the organization and its president Milan Garncarz discontinued
their activities.
In the beginning of 1997 Wolfgang Jendsch
got the appointment to work as a news editor as well as a German-correspondent
with the "International Association of Wildland Fire" (IAWF)
and with the IAWF-own "Wildfire Magazine", USA. Wolfgang
Jendsch reported thereby about the fire- and wildland fire service in Germany
and in the German-speaking states of Europe.
In October 2001 Wolfgang Jendsch got the
appointment as a member of the Scientifically Advisory Board
(Special Fair "Rescue") of the Physician Association Baden-Württemberg.
Memberships:
International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF), USA
International Organization of Fire Photography (IOFP),
USA
California Fire Photographers Association (CFPA), USA
Pictures and Informations
More personal pictures from Wolfgang Jendsch
you will find on a special website (texts only in German language):
Focus:
Reviews and Memories