Overview
- The blaze broke out Tuesday afternoon at a semi-detached house on Ostring in Apfeltrach, Bavaria.
- Police and the fire service identified a technical defect in a microwave as the source of ignition.
- The Polizeipräsidium Schwaben Süd/West estimated the property damage at roughly €100,000.
- No one was hurt because the house was unoccupied when the fire started.
- Volunteer brigades from Apfeltrach, Dirlewang and Mindelheim extinguished the fire quickly after a neighbor raised the alarm, with heat shattering some windows.