On Friday evening, January 27th, the Italian Fire Departments which provided aid during the series of earthquakes in central Italy in the summer of 2016, won the coveted Conrad Dietrich Magirus Award together with the title “International Firefighting Team of the Year 2016.”

The award was presented by Magirus, the global firefighting brand of CNH Industrial, in front of an audience of more than 700 fire fighters and guests from all over the world at the Congress Centrum Ulm, Germany. The winners were determined by a jury as well as online voters who awarded prizes to particularly demanding firefighting operations.