Overview
- Early Monday, a blaze gutted the "October" restaurant in Hamburg-Barmbek, prompting the evacuation of 16 residents from 13 apartments and a temporary halt to nearby S-Bahn service, with no injuries reported.
- In Dresden, firefighters rescued 15 people from a basement fire in a multifamily building; nine were hospitalized on suspicion of smoke inhalation and the structure was deemed temporarily uninhabitable.
- A male resident was found dead after a residential fire in Straelen, where police seized the site and opened a criminal investigation into the cause.
- A transformer-room fire in a youth housing facility in Hamburg-Altona triggered a power outage affecting about 130 houses, including a care home, with utility crews working to restore service.
- Separate incidents included an 80-year-old in Mosbach suffering life-threatening injuries after jumping from a burning home, a thatched-roof house in Schkeuditz being destroyed, a parked coach in Taucha burning out as police probe a possible deliberate act, and Magdeburg residents seeking aid after a multimillion-euro loss.