Brandschutzhelfer

English translation: fire safety officers

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German term or phrase:	Brandschutzhelfer
English translation:	fire safety officers
Entered by:	Rebecca Holmes

09:45 Jan 21, 2003

German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering / fire prevention

German term or phrase: Brandschutzhelfer

Is this the same as fire fighters or is it something slightly different? The best I have come up with so far is "fire prevention specialists" but I am not sure if this is going overboard or not. The sentence is "Die Brandschutzhelfer des X werden eine zweieinhalbstündige Informationsveranstaltung halten."

Rebecca Holmes KudoZ activity Questions: 508 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 375 United States
Local time: 11:04

fire safety (staff, officer...)

Explanation:
I'd definitely go for fire safety soemthing...

Selected response from:

Klaus Dorn (X)
Local time: 18:04

Grading comment

Thank you very much Klaus, Alexander and Steffen. I decided to go with Klaus' answer based on the number of agrees and Google hits (1,270). (As compared to fire prevention assistant with 55 hits.) You all helped me to realize that "Brandschutzhelfer" are not professional fire fighters but company employees trained in fire safety/prevention - something I did not know before. Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +4

fire safety (staff, officer...)

Klaus Dorn (X)

5 +2

fire prevention assistant

Alexander Schleber (X)

fire-fighting [fire safety] aiders

Steffen Walter

Answers

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

fire safety (staff, officer...)

Explanation:
I'd definitely go for fire safety soemthing...

Klaus Dorn (X)
Local time: 18:04
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in pair: 1514

Grading comment

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

fire prevention assistant

Explanation:
Usually a person within a company that is assigned to assist in fire prevention, often including training, monitoring and guiding people to fire exits during training or actual fires.

CDF/TCFD Fire Prevention Page
... Rob Grycel is CDF/TCFD's Fire Prevention Assistant, and is responsible for various
fire prevention education duties, including school programs and other public ...
www.mlode.com/~cdftcfd/prevent.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

Reference: http://www.google.be/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=U...

Alexander Schleber (X)
Belgium
Local time: 17:04
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in pair: 2426

40 mins confidence:

fire-fighting [fire safety] aiders

Explanation:
...in analogy to "first aiders"

These are not fire fighters (i.e. members of the fire brigade) as such but trained volunteers who assist them with firefighting. Of course, they are also involved in preventive actions.

Steffen :-)

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 17:04
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 12418

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