Can the fire brigade remove a wasp's nest?

Once wasps have settled in close proximity to people with a wasp nest, they can become a real threat to health. In addition to beekeepers and professional exterminators, the fire brigade also offers their services for removing a wasp's nest. However, this is linked to various requirements. You can find out what these are and what costs are to be expected here at Plantopedia.

Basics

Who one Wasp nest Discovered at home or in the vicinity of where people are staying, they usually want a quick removal. Calling in a specialist is usually the simplest solution, because he or she has the appropriate experience and equipment and is familiar with the legal requirements. the fire Department Asking for help is one way to have a wasp's nest removed. However, this is a voluntary service and cannot be used in every case.

Fire brigade operations

Statutory provisions for fire brigade operations

According to §§ 1 Paragraph 1 Number 2 of the General Aid in combination with 8 Paragraph 3 of the State Fire and Disaster Protection Act, fire brigades can have their Appropriate options, even if it is not about dangerous events such as fires or floods acts. However, according to the law, the citizen does not own that Legal claim to non-hazard prevention assistance. This means that fire brigades do not necessarily have to help if the requested help does not serve to avert danger. For this reason, a fire brigade to remove wasp nests is only possible under certain conditions.

• the fire brigade agency has approved such operations
• there is no economic disadvantage for private companies that can provide the same service
• there is an acute health risk for children, people with walking difficulties or allergy sufferers
• the chief of operations in the fire brigade sees a legitimate mission
• the wasp's nest is in one place
• which poses a particularly high health risk for people when it is removed
• where there is poor access or no access at all, so that the fire brigade has to create it

No fire service

The fire brigade will usually not remove your wasp's nest if a professional one in the middle of the work week Exterminator company can be called. Many of the providers have a 24-hour service, which also allows work at night as well as on Sundays and public holidays. These possibilities must first be exhausted before a fire service in an "emergency" is justified.

Fire departments do not help with the removal of wasp nests because the appointment with the pest controller or beekeeper is a few hours or days away. Of the Fire Brigade Operations Manager will usually not approve operations that aim to protect against wasps. This means, for example, a fence around the nest. In this way, the danger posed by the insects to humans can be reduced and the time required for a professional to appear can be bridged.

Exemption

While when appointing a specialist, a permit is usually obtained from the competent person Conservation Authority must be obtained, fire brigades have a general exception permit for necessary operations to remove wasp nests. This arises from the decision of the head of operations who finds an operation to be necessary (emergency). The exemption then comes into force automatically. In this case, affected house and apartment owners do not need to obtain prior approval from the city / municipality.

penalty

Punishment despite an exemption

Before the fire brigade arrives, you should start destroying the wasp nests or killing wasps without them If you have begun prior approval from the authorities, you cannot rely on the special permit when deploying the fire brigade called. This only applies to the performance of the fire brigade. This means that you may have committed a criminal offense and could deal with one Penalty payment up to 50,000 euros can be booked.

Cost fire brigade

Price-relevant factors

The actual cost of wasp nest removal depends on a number of factors.

• Access to the wasp nest
• Location
• Hazard risk
• Wasp nest size
• Relocation or killing of the wasps

Access to the wasp nest

The price of the fire brigade depends, among other things, on how well or badly and quickly the nest can be reached. The higher it is, the more effort has to be made. You may have to Fire brigade equipment provided because what is available on site is insufficient. Here, for example, the following questions arise in relation to cost calculation.

• Can the nest be reached with a normal household ladder or is a special ladder / lift required?
• Is the path to the nest freely accessible and, if necessary, can a fire engine drive it?
• For example, do cladding or facades have to be removed in order to gain sufficient access to the nest?

Location

Popular places are, for example, nooks and crannies placesAs found in roller shutter boxes, but also in house insulation they like to build their nests. Access here is usually much more difficult than, for example, with a nest that was built on a tree. Or is it not visible at all and the wasps fly through a slot so that a search has to be made first? The higher the effort, the more the cost calculation increases.

Hazard risk

It is not uncommon for wasp nests to be located in places where access could pose additional health risks. This is the case, for example, when they are attached to power lines or when it is necessary to descend into the chimney.

Nest size

The larger a wasp net, the more wasps can be expected and the risk of an attack increases accordingly. In addition, the fastenings are correspondingly stronger, because as the size increases, the weight increases. That means more work when replacing the nest. If a poison is used, more of it is of course needed for hundreds of wasps than if it were a small nest with only ten or 20 wasps.

Resettlement or killing

As a rule, relocation takes significantly longer than spraying with insecticides. This is correspondingly more expensive. However, this decision is entirely at the discretion of the fire brigade. As a rule, they try to avoid killing in any case and to undertake resettlement.

Costs / prices

Remove the wasp's nest from the tree

A Vespinae nest removal on trees is usually the cheapest and easiest option. Apart from the height and access issues due to dense branches, further difficulties are usually not to be expected. Fire brigades can easily detach the nest attachment from the primer with a spatula or knife and relocate the nest. For this purpose, a suitable location is selected that meets roughly the same conditions as those at the time of Nest removal. The distance is at least three kilometers so that the wasps cannot find their way back. Here costs between 80 euros and 120 euros can be expected.

Winding site

Removal is more difficult, cumbersome and labor-intensive when the firefighters find wasp nests in crooked places. In this case, for example, the mechanism of a roller shutter box does not allow direct access to the nest attachment. Damage to the nest could cause the resettlement project to fail, if by one Nest break the wasps suddenly buzz out. In this case, there is also an increased risk of danger for the firefighters, who must therefore proceed with absolute care. In addition, a "hidden" location also harbors the risk that the nests can continue to enlarge undisturbed without being discovered. Here the fire brigade costs amount to an average of 150 euros to 250 euros, depending on the effort.

Nest removal with structural difficulties

Has a wasp net somewhere inaccessible in the Building fabric It can be expensive if it is “nested” or structural factors prevent access. The wasp nests are usually discovered here too late, so that the wasps have a lot of time to let their nest grow to enormous sizes. This makes the work of the fire fighters even more difficult. It is not uncommon for appropriate craftsmen to be called in, especially in the case of nests in the roof truss, in order to create access and / or to remove damage already caused by the wasps. Prices around 300 euros for the Fire service should be taken into account in the best case - in the worst case the bill can exceed the 1000 euro mark if the effort for removing the wasp's nest is correspondingly extensive.

Insecticide use

Theoretically, the cost of a Kill the wasps by spraying an insecticide to an average of 70 euros to 100 euros. Since the goal of the local fire brigade is resettlement, they will leave no stone unturned in implementing this. That is, a performance is created before the decision to kill is made. These result from the above-mentioned relevant factors of the workload and the use of work equipment and are added to the costs of the killing.

One exception is only given if the nests are immensely large. In the worst case, these can be several meters, making safe detachment and removal for resettlement impossible. Then an insecticide is used directly by the fire brigade. The usage of Work equipment such as a long fire ladder or a lift can raise the price again between 20 euros and 50 euros.