Zone station with tower...

The Zone Station in the Co-operative Village Nyvang is the original garage, which has been located in Høng. It is furnished like a typical Zone Fireguard in a provincial town in the 1940s. With this material, the Zone Rescue Brigade could manage almost all rescue assignments. It was typically fire extinguishing, ambulance driving, animal transport, drowning accidents, storm and water damage as well as assistance at car accidents. The brigade’s vehicles are a Ford AA model 1929 with a fastened "Ellehammer-pump" and crane, and a German-made Ford V8 model 1939 fitted out as an ambulance with Danish-made bodywork.

Falck established the Danish Zone Fireguards in 1925 – but in 1930 the cooperation broke off and the Zone Rescue Brigade became an independent rescue service in competition with Falck. Before this time the rural districts had very varied fire preparedness, often consisting of a horse driven steam fire engine manned by the village citizens. In the1930s Zone Fireguards were established all over Denmark. Every fireguard had to service a radius of approximately 15 ki

lometres. The job was usually taken as a sideline by, for instance, the local blacksmith. The wife in the house managed the phone and the husband managed the vehicles (often only one combined rescue vehicle). Fortunately there were only few turnouts each year – and the locals had to help.

During the 30ies the need for car assistance increased - Falck and the Zone competed to get subscribers – and especially in the market towns the rescue stations were expanded from being a simple garage to a larger facility with guardroom, garages and repair shop. The Zone Stations were small private companies with a community based on subscription and uniforms. However, over time it became hopeless to run little companies and on January 1, 1963 Falck’s Rescue Brigade and the Zone Rescue Brigade merged, and for ten years it was called the FALCK ZONE.