By the title I figured it just wasn’t installed yet. It turns out that no they weren’t going to have one and had no intention of installing one.
Whoops that’s an expensive mistake.
Very un-German of them. It should have had redundant systems on their redundant systems.
For the life of me I can't understand why Germans have that reputation, and I have lived in Germany for more than 10 years. Every single medium or large project (not matter of what kind) always turns into a shit show of epic proportions.
Maybe that reputation was well deserved in the past?
That’s the baffling thing. Normally in Germany you have to have paper, permits and inspectors(and inspectors for the inspectors) before you are even allowed to think about doing something. This is nuts that someone green lit this
Who needs lifeboats on a ship this unsinkable???
This baby has 60,000 huls!
I can't clap slowly enough to display my amazement.
Oh yeah, I guess those can also do that.
How are fire stations funded in Germany?
By the municipality, probably with substantial grants from the state of Hesse in this case. The crazy part is that the building was insured and the insurance company gave their green light after inspecting the new building. Someone's gonna be mad over there.
Dogecoin.
Still weird that you call Hessen Hesse in English. Just looks like the end is missing.
Gude ( local salutation from Hesse ). The state is called Hesse, the people are Hessian or Hessen. Written as I sit in a bar in Hesse.
Ja mit dem Nutzernamen muss ich dir den Hessen wohl abnehmen :D
Aber Hessen als Gegend heisst doch nur auf Englisch "Hesse" und auf Deutsch "Hessen" oder verwurstle ich da was?
Grüsse aus der Schweiz
Im Hessischen Dialekt heißt Hessen Hesse.
Ach so! Danke für die Aufklärung.
It's always the same story. A group/country/institution rises to popularity for being extremely careful and well-prepared. Then people on the outside want to be let in on the action. Then the people behind this rise move on/retire/kicked out because the new people actually don't understand patience and diligence, preparedness were the reason for the original success. They dismiss it as "red-tape" or "waste of money", "who needs so many regulations anyway?". They want shortcuts to success. Result: Firestation burns down.
What an astonishing bunch of dumb fucks. Having electric vehicles and charging stations in there (which is what caused the fire), aside from things like electrical shorts, lots of computers and printers and all the random stuff firef8ghters like bringing with them to work, electrical shorts in vehicles, and things like forgetting to shut off a stove when an alarm call comes out and everyone is rushing out the door....it's ironic, but fire stations definitely burn down. It's not a one in a million occurance, and that station was HUGE. How dumb do you have to be to have a building and stuff stored there all worth way in excess of $20,000,000 and not spend the chump change on an alarm system?
That's not gonna look good on a resume now...
Damn. Maybe I'm not as useless as I thought I was.
That’s situationally ironic
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