At the end of 2012, after a 40-year search, the first log book of the Gangelt fire department, with the records of 1899 to 1937 were found again. In the evaluation of the book many gaps in the history of the Gangelt fire department could be closed, but it turned out a new question. One of the log book writers, Emil Falkenstein, was a founding member of the Gangelt voluntary fire brigade in 1899 an…