• Wofls@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Löschen can also mean to offload cargo from a ship if you were only thinking about to delete as a second meaning

    Literally it’s: Supportserviceextinguishinggroupvehicle, it’s a kind of all-rounder firetruck and the most commen one.

    The “Hilfeleistung” means that it isn’t just for firefighting but also other kinds calls “Technische Hilfe” / technical support

    and the “Löschgruppe” refers to the core capability to fight fires as well as the personell on board, a “Gruppe” is a specific tactical unit in german firefighting of 9 people

    • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz
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      3 days ago

      Löschen can also mean to offload cargo from a ship…

      I did not know this one either, and it seems even more different from delete/erase/extinguish. I had to look this up; wiktionary says that the unloading sense is actually from a different root (MND lössen, cognate with “los”), which may have changed due to association with the “erasure” sense, particularly in the context of erasure from ship inventories and logbooks.

      Also, thank you for the context. This kind of detail tends to be extremely difficult to search for.