2023-06-27 08:38:39
Fire alarm on Monday afternoon in the Tyrolean lowlands: a forest fire broke out in the Brandenberger Alps at an altitude of over 1500 meters. Hundreds of firefighters and the police helicopter fought against the flames. The situation presented the emergency services with challenges. A fire that had already been lit on Saturday was identified as the cause.
The fire department was called just before 2:30 p.m. A hiker sounded the alarm after noticing clouds of smoke in the Brandenberg Alps between the Zunterköpfl and the Aschaalm.Flames a meter high “During a reconnaissance flight with the police helicopter, a fire area of around 40 square meters was located at an altitude of 1530 meters. Flames shot up several meters and at that time there was a brisk wind in the affected area,” the police said fought, the emergency services of the Brandenberg, Aschau, Kramsach, Radfeld and Unterlangkampfen fire brigades went terrestrially to the fire site, which could only be reached on foot. Fire brigade drones were also deployed. The fire was finally quickly brought under control and further spread prevented. “With the use of the Kufstein fire brigade drone, areas of heat in the dry ground could be identified and this could be dug up to prevent another fire,” the investigators continue. to be located. “He had already cut slippers in this area on Saturday and then collected them in several piles. He finally set fire to three of these heaps in clearings, let them burn down and controlled the purpose fire until midnight,” the investigators describe. During another check on Sunday, “the embers appeared harmless and inconspicuous”. The fire should then have spread from a glowing nest of burnt-down piles of pines to the meadow, trees and other piles all around via flying sparks. Nobody got hurt. The extinguishing work by the fire brigade and the police helicopter lasted until after 6 p.m. on Monday. The 46-year-old alleged perpetrator is displayed.
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