Overview

• Emergency teams arrived on June 6 at 19:37 UTC, deploying over 150 firefighters who fought the fire into the early hours of June 7.
• The blaze gutted the vacant Staatsoperette, causing sections of the roof and former auditorium to collapse and rendering the structure unsafe.
• Residents of two adjacent apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution and Pirnaer Landstraße was closed, disrupting multiple tram and bus lines.
• One firefighter was treated for circulatory problems during the operation, and Technisches Hilfswerk crews later covered the roof to extinguish remaining embers.
• Authorities opened a forensic probe into the fire’s cause, with initial loss estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to several million euros.