Oberhausen Fire Contained After Hours-Long Battle with Roof and Facade Blaze

Firefighters from Oberhausen and Gladbeck worked together to extinguish a challenging residential fire involving a metal facade, with no injuries reported.

• A fire broke out in the roof structure of a residential building in Oberhausen's Klosterhardt district on April 11, 2025, at approximately 14:45.
• The blaze spread from the roof to the building's metal facade, complicating firefighting efforts due to inaccessible smoldering embers.
• The Oberhausen fire department requested assistance from Gladbeck and utilized the specialized Cobra-Löschsystem to target and extinguish hidden embers.
• Fire suppression operations successfully brought the blaze under control by the evening, with post-suppression efforts continuing for several hours afterward.
• No injuries were reported, and the building was unoccupied at the time of the fire, ensuring no casualties in the incident.

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