Overview
- Firefighters in Hamburg responded to separate blazes including a garden hut in Finkenwerder, a paper container in Billstedt, a trash room in Altona-Nord, and a car in nearby Glinde.
- Access in the Finkenwerder allotment was difficult due to narrow paths and limited water supply, requiring long hose lines to reach the burning hut.
- Accounts differ on whether the Finkenwerder fire spread to an adjacent hut, with a fire service spokesman saying it did not and MOPO reporting it had reached a neighbor structure.
- In Altona-Nord, a five-story building was evacuated as crews extinguished a burning trash room and ventilated smoke-filled apartments before residents returned.
- In Paderborn earlier that evening, terrace furniture burned with heat shattering windows; 32 firefighters worked about 1.5 hours and residents were uninjured as police began investigating.