Overview
- In Flensburg, a large scrap and e-waste pile has been burning since shortly before midnight, with about 100 firefighters tackling persistent hotspots, reporting small explosions, and advising residents to keep windows closed as measurements show no acute health risk.
- A roughly 600-square-metre warehouse storing around 30 boats in Rheinsberg was destroyed overnight, with repeated smaller explosions, damage initially estimated in the tens of millions of euros, a NINA alert issued, and the criminal police opening an investigation.
- Separate residential fires brought casualties, including an 83-year-old man who died in Wertheim, and in Michendorf firefighters found a deceased woman as police examine whether a nearby fatal car crash is connected.
- In Kusel, multiple explosions at a garden outbuilding left a resident with severe burns who was airlifted to a trauma clinic, as investigators work to determine the cause.
- Police are probing suspected arson in multiple cases, including three late-October blazes in Oschersleben where offenders are believed to know the area, and two Skoda vehicles set alight in Kassel, with appeals for witnesses in both investigations.