Overview
- A blaze began in a heating room on Lutzenhofstraße in the Toba district and was discovered by responding crews with dense smoke coming from an outbuilding.
- About 70 firefighters from Toba, Ebeleben, the municipality of Helbedündorf and Sondershausen fought the fire and kept it from spreading to the main building.
- Firefighting work lasted almost four hours and the Toba fire brigade took over a fire watch at the site the next day.
- The Kriminalpolizei has opened an investigation to determine the still-unknown cause of the fire.
- Officials give a preliminary damage estimate of roughly €60,000 and will update that figure as investigators and firefighters complete their assessments.