Overview

• The massive forest blazes on the Saalfelder Höhe in Thuringia and the Gohrischheide on the Saxony-Brandenburg border remain active but contained under a reduced force of around 200 to 400 personnel.
• Landkreis Meißen ordered the evacuation of about 45 residents from Jacobsthal Bahnhof as flames approached the outskirts of the Saxony village.
• Ground teams are barred from sections of the Gohrischheide former military training area due to unexploded ordnance, forcing reliance on aerial water drops to hold fire lines.
• Recent smaller wildfires in Weisenheim am Berg and the Göllheimer Wald have been extinguished, and structural fires in Solingen’s Ittertal, Berlin-Neukölln, and Wolkersdorf were quickly brought under control with no injuries reported.
• Officials warn persistent summer drought and heat-driven dryness continue to pose a high fire threat, spurring calls to enhance water logistics and expand aerial firefighting capacity.