Overview

• A nine-year-old is believed to be inside the burned apartment in Elmshorner Straße, with access halted overnight on collapse warnings.
• The girl's parents and 14-year-old brother escaped with severe injuries, the father is in life-threatening condition, and a 76-year-old ground-floor resident got out unharmed.
• Firefighters aborted an interior rescue attempt because flames had fully involved the upper floors and switched to an exterior attack with more than 100 personnel and two aerial ladders.
• A THW recovery unit was requested to support a targeted search in the morning as investigators work to determine the cause of the fire.
• In a separate case, four youths allegedly set multiple fires inside Oldenburg’s Kastanienhof school using flammable waste; police detained three suspects at the scene and are searching for a fourth.