Copenhagen Fire Department

The Helmeted Firemen Service was inaugurated in 1930 and the Civil Contingency Planning Department in 1998.

[4] On April 28, 2013 suspected arsonist fire ripped through the Museum of Danish Resistance[5] in Copenhagen.

Firefighters arrived within minutes of the alarm and quickly determined, that the old, largely wooden structure couldn't be saved, so the fire fighters were split into groups either stalling the blaze or emptying the museum for its historical artefacts from World War II.

The department managed to clear close to all the artifacts, thereby rescuing the heritage of the Danish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Denmark almost in its entirety.

For this action, the Danish National Museum in 2014 awarded the Copenhagen Fire Department its jubilee medal for invaluable service.