Overview

• A major fire at a farm complex in Dortmund-Brechten prompted a large response before dawn, with one resident and four dogs rescued, no reported injuries, limited hydrants requiring tanker shuttles, and difficult access under overhead lines.
• Two separate evening blazes in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern patient rooms led to evacuations with no injuries, with police probing negligent use of an electrical device in Prerow and suspected deliberate arson in Röbel, each causing roughly €10,000 in damage.
• One week after a Freiburg industrial-hall inferno, investigators report at least €50 million in losses and confirm the sprinkler system was partly offline during facility work, as a fire watch raised the alarm and crews stopped spread to a second hall.
• A late-night roof fire in Bochum forced a multi-unit operation with drone and ladder access to a hard-to-reach attic, temporary evacuation of a neighboring building, and a criminal inquiry into the cause.
• In Ortenberg a roof blaze left one resident hospitalized for suspected smoke inhalation and caused about €250,000 in damage, while separate apartment fires in Halberstadt and Magdeburg rendered units uninhabitable as police seized scenes and opened investigations.