Overview
- Near Lyon, an unauthorized rap-video shoot in Rillieux-la-Pape saw fireworks ignite boxes on a balcony, sending flames up a five-storey façade, rendering multiple apartments uninhabitable and displacing dozens, as prosecutors opened an inquiry.
- In Wolfenbüttel, a detonation collapsed a terraced house and left an 83-year-old resident missing; searches are paused until neighboring buildings are stabilized, with three people injured and about 140 responders and the THW involved.
- Essen recorded a nighttime series of fires from bins to a cellar blaze that forced evacuations and left a block without power, with police investigating the sequence as potential arson and reporting no injuries.
- Police in Döbeln and Oschersleben are probing clustered fires—containers, a garden shed, a garage, and site equipment—with suspected arson in both towns and one person identified near a scene in Oschersleben under examination.
- Separate incidents included a house fire in Espenau that destroyed the building and sent the occupant to hospital for suspected smoke inhalation, a paper-laden truck burning out on the A9 with six-figure damage likely due to a technical defect, and a restaurant fire on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn that slightly injured two people.