Overview
- By Sunday morning, Charité said about 20 more operations were pending for ice-related fractures after treating over 200 patients Saturday, with up to 130 at once and three operating rooms running in parallel.
- Potsdam’s Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann declared mass-casualty level 2 and handled up to 86 injured patients, activating additional surgical teams and on‑call personnel.
- Berlin police recorded 565 traffic crashes from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning, while fire and rescue services logged about 1,420 runs by Saturday afternoon and deployed 54 extra ambulances as helicopters stayed grounded.
- The DWD’s ice alerts extended into Sunday with officials urging people to avoid nonessential trips; Potsdam suspended buses for hours and BER reported only minor de‑icing delays.
- Glaze‑ice accidents were reported across Germany, notably in North Rhine-Westphalia where police tallied dozens of crashes, as Berlin’s incident rates began to ease though workloads remained high.