Overview

• In Ascheberg, a barn burned out as firefighters saved about 300 pigs and prevented flames from spreading to a nearby home.
• Police reported the barn’s photovoltaic system was destroyed and a parked Unimog burned out, with no human injuries recorded.
• The Ascheberg operation lasted hours with mutual-aid brigades, a full closure of the L671, and water shuttles to sustain supply.
• At a Barkelsby farm, crews and the farmer drove roughly 100 calves to safety while more than 120 responders fought a wind-fueled fire that left several rescuers with minor smoke injuries.
• In Neunkirchen, a mother and her adult son were rescued from a ground-floor apartment and taken to hospital as four more residents were evacuated with smoke hoods and the stairwell was ventilated.