Overview
- Gmunden: An early-morning fire in a renovated Altstadt villa forced 12 residents out, the building was officially sealed as uninhabitable, and a demolition firm must secure an unstable roof before forensic work can begin.
- Police and the Landeskriminalamt in Gmunden found no evidence of an electrical defect and are investigating suspected arson after a separately parked car also burned, with witness tips requested.
- Maintal-Bischofsheim: A landscaping firm’s warehouse burned to its foundations with initial damage estimated at about one million euros, the criminal police have opened an investigation, and one firefighter sustained a minor hand injury.
- Lunzenau/Klein Schlaisdorf: A house and an outbuilding burned in the evening, the two 53-year-old residents escaped unharmed, the home is not habitable, and the couple is staying in an emergency apartment arranged by the mayor.
- Fire crews reported severe operational challenges in Saxony, including scarce hydrants that required tanker shuttles and a 1.5-kilometer hose line, as well as explosions of gas bottles and igniting fireworks inside the building.