2023-06-18 17:25:34
BIn the case of a fire in a motorcycle shop on Sunday in Sankt Augustin, North Rhine-Westphalia, two emergency services were apparently involved Fire department lost his life. As the city administration announced, a fireman and a firewoman were missing, but their deaths were already expected. “Unfortunately, we have to assume the worst,” said Mayor Max Leitterstorf (CDU).
According to the city, the fire broke out on Sunday morning and triggered a large-scale operation, with massive smoke developing. According to this, ten emergency services and one other person were slightly injured during the event, five of whom were taken to hospitals. The reason in these cases was above all the “great heat of the day”.
The city initially did not provide any further information on the events that led to the feared death of the emergency services on Sunday, media reports spoke of detonations. “It is possibly the darkest day in the history of the Sankt Augustin volunteer fire department,” said Mayor Leitterstorf.
According to the city, the local fire brigade was subsequently replaced, and other fire brigades took over the job.
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