A sort ofls Jürgen Christmann, the current Vice President of the Hessian Association, joined German Red Cross (DRK) When the elderly want to tell the story of a large-scale operation, they always report the storm surge in Hamburg. The disaster in the spring of 1962 was only ten years ago. Since then, there have been several missions-the floods in Dresden in 2002 and Havelberg in 2013, and the refugee crises in 2015 and 2016. “Don’t want to predict our own statistics,” Christman said, “I can imagine this task can be the biggest.”
Jürgen Christmann stands in the parking lot of the Grafschaft City Industrial Park in the Ahrweiler District. The parking lot belongs to a branch of Haribao, but no company employees are parking here.In the past few days, the parking lot has become a tent city, and the new supply center went into operation on Monday: the next step is to deploy on a large scale Red cross After the flood disaster.
Since the floods in the Ahr Valley destroyed houses and roads and paralyzed electricity and water supplies, organizations such as DRK have been providing the most basic necessities. Sometimes, about 3,500 assistants from all over Germany set up shower containers and backup generators. They take care of the psychosocial care of the affected. They set up mobile doctor offices and drinking water distribution points. Approximately 140,000 liters of water flow through each day. .
10,000 good warm meals a day
They cook in the wild kitchen for those who don’t know how to eat hot meals. Even three weeks after the flood, it is foreseeable that this supply will still be necessary for a period of time. Therefore, a facility that can last for several weeks should be created. “Thursday, we received an order from the Federal Association,” said Norbert Gerlach, spokesperson for the Hesse DRK State Association. “Friday afternoon, the first batch of tents are already here.” Everything is With the arrangements in place, there are now about two dozen full speed ahead over the weekend. Every day, 10,000 hot meals are produced here and delivered by delivery trucks to distribution points in flood-affected towns.
In refrigerated trucks and storage tents, there are trays of food that ordinary households don’t have: ten liters of canola oil, a few trays of pasta in a five-kilogram box, and four petals of tomatoes and peppers. Kilogram cans. Bag after bag were filled with basil, chili powder and garlic spice. A large part of this is a large donation. How long can these supplies last? “Maybe two days,” Jürgen Christmann said.
The label on the other tents, “FKH6” stands for “Picnic 6-Vegetarian Kitchen 2”, showing the place where food is prepared. On the first day, the helpers did more than 13 hours. They said: From 2 pm on Sunday to 3:30 am on Monday, sometimes they sleep for no more than three hours. Cooking one by one, they cut vegetables and fried meat. On the first day, there is pizza soup with mushrooms and corn, minced meat or tofu. A surprising number of ingredients are used and produced for this: if you calculate a 500 ml soup, then one thousand servings is 500 liters, and ten thousand servings is 5,000 liters of soup.
