Frederiksborg Fire & Rescue Service (FBBR) provides fire and rescue services to municipalities of Frederikssund, Halsnaes, Hilleroed, Gribskov, Egedal and Furesoe in the center of the island of Zealand, in Denmark. The six municipalities are home to approximately 250.000 inhabitants, who live within a land area of 1058 square miles.In addition, FBBR possess a wide experience in Civil protection issues – both at the national and international level.
Our primary task, as described in the Danish Emergency Management Act, is to provide rapid response services in emergency situations. Our focus, however, is on preventative work and includes fire and safety inspections, fire safety building design, fire hydrant maintenance, basic fire fighting courses, etc., in accordance with the Emergency Management Settlement of 2002.
FBBR exploits a lot of its wide knowledge and experience related to the various kind of risks and disasters and with that contributes to different EU projects related for instance, to risk and vulnerability assessment, especially to scenario building, crisis management, situation assessment, information management, coordination, communication operative response etc.