Passers-by in the city center of ebern were confronted with an unusual sight on saturday in the late afternoon. A convoy that is seldom seen: in front the team transporter of the volunteer fire department of ebern, behind it twelve firefighters in full protective gear with donned breathing apparatus, jogging – and with noticeable strain on their faces.

"After the firefighter-run in waldkirch near freiburg, for which we had been training the last months, was finally cancelled because of the corona-pandemic, the de-exchange was of course rough", according to marcel leibold, responsible for service sports at the ebern floriansjungern. The run, which will take place on 10. The five-kilometer race, which took place in the breisgau region of germany on october, would have been the highlight for the running group, which had repeatedly been in "full assembly" in the past weeks on its training circuit between ebern and rentweinsdorf was on the move.