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are task bearers

• the municipalities for fire safety and general help,
• the administrative districts for supra-local fire protection and supra-local general assistance,
• the counties and urban districts for civil protection and
• the state for the central tasks of fire protection, general assistance and civil protection as well as for the tasks of preventive hazard protection. To fulfill its central tasks, the state has set up a "Fire and Disaster Prevention" department in the supervisory and service department in Trier and maintains the fire brigade and disaster control school in Koblenz for training purposes.

The fire brigades are to be financed by the responsible authority. They receive financial aid from the state - from funds from the fire protection tax and the investment fund - for the procurement of fire-fighting equipment, personal protective equipment and for the construction or renovation of fire-fighting stations.

professional fire brigade: In cities with more than 90,000 inhabitants - Kaiserslautern, Koblenz, Ludwigshafen, Mainz and Trier - the fire brigade must include units made up of full-time fire brigade members (professional fire brigade). Other municipalities can set up a professional fire brigade.

Volunteer firefighter: In communities without a professional fire brigade, a volunteer fire brigade must be set up. If there are not enough volunteers available for this purpose, the necessary people are to be used for voluntary fire brigade service ("compulsory fire brigade"). Larger cities, which are not (yet) obliged to have a professional fire brigade due to their number of inhabitants, often form voluntary fire brigades with full-time employees, e.g. B. Neuwied, Worms, Speyer and Pirmasens.

Plant fire brigade: For companies with increased fire or explosion risks or other special hazards, the Supervisory and Service Directorate can require the establishment of a plant fire brigade (examples: plant fire brigades BASF, Boehringer, Schott-Glas) with full-time and/or part-time members.

The training and further education at the Rhineland-Palatinate fire brigades is perceived as a network system between the individual authorities, starting with the site training, through the district training to the central training at the fire brigade and disaster control school in Koblenz

All non-police requests for help will in future be received and coordinated by eight integrated control centres. The integrated control centers thus form a uniform reporting head.