Follow the sirens

KEEPING TRACK OF THE BERLINER FEUERWEHR ACTIVITY NEAR YOU

By Letícia Figueiredo Collado and Xiaohan Wu
Berlin, March 29, 2026

Photo: Florian Schmidt

Emergency vehicles in Germany are known for their brain-breaking sirens.
Their loud and piercing sounds decidely make room for the necessary service to get through -- it's impossible not to notice them.

Did you ever wonder where the fire trucks are going? Where in Berlin are all these fires? Are they really all fires?

Follow us in this interactive path to understand some of the fire brigade activity in Berlin near your home, work, school or any other place of interest.

Your local area

Selected Planungsraum and nearby context.

Berlin-wide patterns

How does your area compare to the rest of Berlin? Take a look at some of the data for the whole city in 2025.

About the data

This interactive path was developed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Florian Koch from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtshchaft Berlin. It uses data from the Berliner Feuerwehr available in their official website as well as in their GitHub page. For more information and insights, check out their pages. Data on Berlin's population was gathered from the Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg's official page.

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