Overview
- In Rillieux-la-Pape near Lyon, a firework from an unauthorized rap-video shoot ignited a residential block, leaving several flats uninhabitable and prompting a prosecutor’s inquiry.
- Police and firefighters at the French scene faced fireworks attacks, and dozens of residents were evacuated to temporary shelter.
- In Wolfenbüttel, a detonation collapsed a terraced house, the 83-year-old resident remains missing, and the search is on hold until neighboring structures are stabilized.
- German police are investigating overnight fire series in Essen, Döbeln and Oschersleben as suspected arson, with evacuations in Essen and a person spotted near Oschersleben scenes checked by officers.
- Separate incidents included a house fire in Espenau that sent the occupant to hospital, a paper truck that burned out on the A9 in a likely technical failure with six-figure damage, and a Reeperbahn restaurant fire that lightly injured two people.