Overview
- Firefighters were alerted around 11:20 a.m. Sunday to the Gösper Straße blaze, where the entire first upper floor of a two‑story building was already burning and dense smoke had spread through the area.
- All occupants had exited the Blumenthal building before crews arrived, and an initial concern about a missing person was ruled out at the scene.
- Crews brought the Blumenthal fire under control and spent hours removing sections of the roof to extinguish hidden hot spots, with damage still unquantified.
- In the Nov. 9 Deichhorst incident on Bachstraße, a resident was rescued from a balcony but suffered severe burns and a life‑threatening smoke inhalation injury, and the apartment was destroyed.
- Because the standard night‑flight emergency helicopter was unavailable in Deichhorst, a Bundeswehr NH90 landed on a nearby sports field to airlift the patient to Hannover’s medical university hospital.