With the sometimes record-breaking high temperatures since the turn of the year, it is almost imperative to start the bathing season. The water guards of the Munich-Mitte local group did this on Epiphany, after dark. When the air temperature was still eight degrees, around a dozen men and women jumped into the cold water at the Großhesseloher Bridge. They protected themselves against this with neoprene suits and lit up the night with torches.With this torch swim, they continued a tradition...
Official figures for attacks on emergency services are not yet available for this year - but at least the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) and the Johanniter in the Free State are reporting a noticeable decrease. The internal statistics list fewer cases than in the two previous years, said BRK spokesman Sohrab Taheri-Sohi of the German Press Agency. "This is certainly also due to the feedback morale. Basically, in 2022 there was also a perceived decrease in acts of aggression towards...
On Tuesday, the state government decided on further details on aid for the social sector and social life in view of the high energy costs. "We want to ensure that Bavaria continues to run and function in the crisis," said Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) after a cabinet meeting, which this time took place in Nuremberg. From the hardship fund of 1.5 billion euros that has already been decided, 600 million euros will be made available, among other things, through...
Many suspected it, meteorologist Jürgen Schmidt confirms it: December is cold. Too cold even. At least compared to previous years. In Munich, for example, the temperatures have so far been 1.2 degrees too low. "So we have similarly cold temperatures as last time in 2010. That was the last time there was a white Christmas in Germany," says Schmidt from the weather service "Wetterkontor". But if you now think that there is a chance of snow on Christmas Eve, you...
Well, well, let's relax now too: The Red Cross is offering a "Munich candle-making" at the Tollwood Winter Festival, and that reads like an activity from meditation hell - a wick is dipped in liquid wax that he sucks himself up. Then you wait until the wax has solidified on the wick. Then he is submerged again. Then you wait until the wax has solidified on the wick. Then he gets submerged again...The Red Cross writes that drawing a larger...
A broad alliance of 16 social associations and organizations warns of a worsening of the social situation in Bavaria - and calls for concrete countermeasures from politicians. The corona pandemic had already clearly exposed the existing social inequalities. And with the consequences of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the rising prices and the great energy insecurity, the situation is getting worse, according to a position paper that the "Social Network Bavaria" presented on Wednesday. The Red Cross, Caritas,...
The Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) operates more than 150 care facilities in Bavaria, as well as 120 outpatient care services. They are also affected by the rising costs in many areas. The BRK once calculated what that could mean for the residents of nursing homes - and came to unsatisfactory results: A nursing place could cost around 300 euros more per month. BRK President Angelika Schorer, who sits in the state parliament for the CSU, is making an appeal to...
Blood supplies are particularly scarce this year, and anyone who wants to do something about it can donate blood in the district town this Wednesday and Thursday, August 24th and 25th. This is possible from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the BRK building at Zur Gass 5 in Ebersberg. You should bring your identity card or passport and, if you have one, your blood donor card. on www.blutspendedienst.com/ebersberg you can reserve a date of your choice. source site
It was only a few days ago that an 81-year-old woman fell 30 meters down a mountainside during a mountain hike towards the Gedererwand near Aschau in the Chiemgau. When the emergency doctor and the people from the mountain rescue service arrive, she is still alive, but in the end they can no longer save the woman. Or recently over on the Untersberg. An experienced mountaineer, traveling alone, slips and falls 40 meters. For him, too, any help comes too...
A cross-border rescue service project funded by the EU offers fast and unbureaucratic help in emergencies in the Bavarian-Czech border region. This expires at the end of 2022. Angelika Schorer, President of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK), urges a continuation. Life-saving should not stop at national borders, she said during a visit to Furth im Wald (Cham district) on Monday.The Competence and Coordination Center for Cross-Border Rescue Services (Gü-RD) is located in the Upper Palatinate city, which regulates the operations...
