Overview

• In Hamburg’s Marienkrankenhaus blaze, a 72-year-old patient allegedly set his pillow alight, killing four patients and injuring at least 34 before being ordered into psychiatric care.
• Berlin firefighters and the Landeskriminalamt are probing a 3,500-square-meter warehouse fire in Marzahn as potential brandstiftung after explosions and gas-cylinder blasts overnight.
• Hamburg police have launched a manhunt after four paper-container fires in Niendorf, while investigators in Saxony-Anhalt are examining a barn fire that destroyed a rural outbuilding.
• Crews in Leipzig contained a sudden roof fire at a building under renovation and in Backnang extinguished a recycling-yard inferno that spread to an adjacent hall.
• More than 500 emergency responders have been deployed nationwide in recent days, with smoke warnings issued via Nina and Katwarn apps to protect residents.