Overview

• A Saturday evening fire in a top-floor Lechbruck apartment caused an estimated €100,000 in damage but no injuries, with Kripo Kempten probing a suspected electrical defect.
• On Sunday afternoon a Dachstuhl blaze broke out on a rear roof terrace in Velbert-Mitte, spreading across the roof and triggering a NINA public warning.
• Fire crews employed interior attack teams, ladder units and drone reconnaissance to extinguish both fires and locate remaining hot spots.
• Both the Velbert building and its neighboring house were rendered uninhabitable by structural damage and water intrusion, and residents have been sheltered by relatives, friends or the Ordnungsamt.
• Firefighters were diverted to several parallel incidents during the Velbert response, underlining resource pressures in a wave of similar fires across Germany.