Caption

Emergency services practise the use of pumps that are used, for example, during floods, at an old swimming pool, large-scale exercise FÜLEX25, of the THW, Technisches Hilfswerk, Landesverband North Rhine-Westphalia, on 4 weekends over 3500 volunteers from the 127 North Rhine-Westphalia local associations practise many different deployment scenarios from the field of disaster control and civil defence

Date

Sep 19, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK25J90_282

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

Available size

142.4Mb (6.6Mb) / 19.2in x 28.8in / 5760 x 8640 (300dpi)

Keywords

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