The flood disaster at the beginning of August emphatically documented the importance of volunteer fire brigades. Sara Vidovič and Evelin Kolednik researched this and interviewed Jože Šmigoc (42), Tomaž Muršek (28) and Tijan Šibila (18) from the fire brigade in Videm pri Ptuju. The conversation about the 100-year tradition of the fire brigades, its achievements and current operations is part of the work on a report for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/FAZ, project “Jugend schreibt” (Youth writes). Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)