Overview

• Berlin’s Gropiusstadt saw a first-floor apartment fire spread to the floor above, injuring three people including one critically, with 18 residents briefly out before most returned after ventilation and checks.
• On the A6 near Sinsheim, a 23-year-old BMW driver fleeing a stop crashed at the Sinsheim-Steinsfurt exit, with indications of drug use and no valid licence; he and two 16-year-old passengers were lightly hurt and the exit was closed until about 6 a.m.
• A serious crash on the A14 near Schönebeck blocked all lanes, with officials warning of an unsecured accident site and urging a rescue lane, as the cause and any injuries remained unclear.
• In Dresden-Neustadt, firefighters extinguished several container fires in quick succession with no injuries reported, and police opened an investigation into suspected arson.
• Further incidents included a vacant-building fire in Leipzig quickly contained without injuries, a fryer fire at Stuttgart’s Cannstatter Volksfest that led to a brief tent closure, a Hude carport blaze that destroyed two cars but spared a house, a 200 km/h A73 crash near Bamberg that left the driver uninjured, and a Gladbeck kitchen fire that left one flat temporarily uninhabitable.