Overview
- Emergency crews were dispatched shortly before 10 a.m. to Stefan-George-Ring in Munich’s Zamdorf district after witnesses reported smoke and a resident inside.
- Firefighters entered the second-floor unit wearing breathing apparatus and extinguished a kitchen blaze using a C-hose.
- Responders rescued an 80-year-old man from a very hot, heavily smoke-filled apartment and began intensive-care measures on site.
- The patient was transported to the shock room of a Munich clinic for further treatment and remains in life-threatening condition.
- Fire damage was confined to the single apartment, other residents were not endangered, and officials have not yet clarified the origin of the fire or the final damage assessment.