Dr Thomas Große

Medicine · Fire service · Research

Specialist anaesthetist, intensive-care and emergency physician who also studied medical engineering. Deputy local fire chief of the Hooksiel volunteer fire brigade in Wangerland, and district fire-service medical officer.

At district level he is especially involved in the training and continuing education of specialist firefighting topics, among them basic rescue from heights and depths as well as technical rescue.

A focus of his work lies in scientific research in operational fire protection. His interest is in the interplay between operational concepts, operational tactics, equipment technology and the physiological demands on personnel. The spectrum ranges from the effectiveness of the agents used to the physical load during operations. WetTron is one of the results of this work.

Marianne Große

Emergency medical service · Fire service · Training

Emergency paramedic, specialist lecturer in the emergency medical service and practical instructor. In the Hooksiel volunteer fire brigade she serves as squad leader, pump operator and breathing-apparatus wearer; at district level she is an instructor for basic rescue from heights and depths as well as technical rescue.

Through her many years in the emergency medical service and the fire service, she has extensive operational experience in emergency care, technical rescue and hazard response. As an emergency-medical-service operations commander she also has wide-ranging experience in managing larger incidents. She brings her expertise in particular to practice-oriented training and continuing education, and to the user-focused development of medical and firefighting equipment.

Frank Reuter

Mining · Mine rescue · Safety

Mining engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) and head of a mine rescue team. Through his many years in underground mining, he combines technical expertise with extensive practical experience in mine rescue and hazard response.

As a trained height-rescue technician, breathing-apparatus maintenance technician, instructor for breathing-apparatus wearers and instructor for tactical medicine in mine rescue, he has worked for many years on rescue, safety and operational concepts in underground mining. Together with Dr Thomas Große he works on questions and research topics in emergency response.

Volker Lange

Professional fire service · Medical technology · Company management

Volker Lange is a professional firefighter and paramedic with many years of operational experience. In 1993 he founded the company Regina Lange Medizintechnik together with his wife, which was converted into a GmbH in 2023; it is a specialist supplier for emergency medicine focusing on sound instruction, practice-oriented training and customer-specific solutions.

Through his career he combines extensive expertise from the fire and rescue services, company management and medical engineering. For over 33 years he served in operational duty, working until his retirement as a platoon commander in the senior officer grade and as a watch commander with the fire service of the city of Schwerte. During this time, one of his focuses was the organisation of the emergency medical service and the EMS training station.

Alongside his operational work, he has many years of experience in managerial and organisational roles. He brings to the team of 4D Fire & Rescue Concepts GmbH in particular his competencies in management, operational organisation and practice-oriented solution development.