Overview
- Firefighters responding to multiple 112 calls found a roughly 100‑square‑meter multilayer plasterboard ceiling had fallen inside a shop on Bahnhofstraße in Sterkrade.
- About 30 personnel from Oberhausen’s fire and rescue stations 1 and 2 forced entry, conducted a systematic search, and checked adjacent areas before clearing the scene in roughly 45 minutes.
- No one was injured or trapped, and initial assessments indicated no damage to the building’s main structure.
- The shop interior is unusable until further notice while the cause of the ceiling failure remains undetermined.
- Police told BILD the business was a cosmetic studio, a detail not uniformly confirmed by other outlets.