sustainable and efficient solutions for specific framework conditions are more important today than ever before! The winter package for turrets, which was specially developed for extreme cold, keeps fire departments operational at any time, even in the Arctic Circle. Discover the new service4fire functions that support geographic visualization of operations vehicles for the first time and get to know the FIRE MAX II with three different top layer materials.

On top of this, you can look forward to an interview with an expert on attaching decals to fire fighting vehicles, and a report on the latest development by ROSENBAUER - the water turret 10000 - for the German Federal Police. A change in the management of Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG is also on the cards. This issue includes an in-depth portrait of the new management. 

We wish you all a peaceful Christmas season and much success in 2010!

Your ROSENBAUER Editorial Team!

Fire departements within the Arctic Circle right up to Spitzbergen are all too familiar with the problem of frozen water lines and nozzles, due to the climatic conditions in these latitudes. Running water does not freeze in the lines, but freezing water spray can actually destroy the turret"s mechanical parts and even cause the turret to fail, if worst comes to worst ...more

Thanks to the integration of new functions in the service4fire.com online service portal, ROSENBAUER is setting more new standards in operational vehicle management.

On the dot - vehicle positioning and routing information

The highlight of the system upgrade is the geographic visualization of operations vehicles in the online service portal. ...more

Fire fighting suits have to offer the wearer best-of-class protection in any difficult situation. Anyone knows this. But fire fighters in particular know how important it is that protective gear is pleasant to wear, that it is reinforced in the right places, that it gives you maximum freedom of movement, and that it is easy to care for!

At ROSENBAUER, we have set ourselves the goal of fulfilling all of these requirments in one suit: FIRE MAX II ...more

It finally happened at the end of November 2009: After around one year's development and production, ROSENBAUER handed over the prototype of the first 10000 (WAWE) water turret to Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). Against the backdrop of the handover celebrations in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany, the key was officially handed over by Julian Wagner, CEO of ROSENBAUER International AG in the presence of General Director Christoph Verenkotte, the Head of the Federal Police Department in Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior, and the Inspector of the Federal Intervention Police, Jürgen Schubert. ...more

Michael Kristeller has been appointed as the new head of Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG and will now manage the company in conjunction with Gottfried Reiter ...more