Overview
- In Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck, a vacant residential building burned down overnight, with the roof and wooden stairwell fully involved and interior firefighting ruled out due to collapse risk.
- About 50 responders attacked the Gelsenkirchen fire externally using two ladder trucks with monitors and multiple hoses, deployed a drone, called in energy providers, and requested THW support; police are investigating.
- In Bremen’s Blumenthal district on Sunday, the entire first upper floor of a two-storey multi-family house burned, all occupants evacuated safely, and firefighters quickly brought the blaze under control.
- Blumenthal crews conducted prolonged overhaul, including removing roof sections to reach hot spots, while the criminal police began examining the cause and the damage total remained unclear.
- In an earlier Deichhorst fire on November 9, a resident rescued from a balcony suffered severe burns and life‑threatening smoke inhalation and was flown to Hannover by a Bundeswehr NH90 after the usual night-capable rescue helicopter was unavailable.