Fire in refugee accommodation: three injured and mysterious causes!

In the night of December 27, 2024, a fire occurred in a refugee accommodation in Dortmund. According to T-Online fire broke out in a room of a residential container. The residents reacted quickly, left their rooms and alerted the fire brigade.

The fire brigade was able to control the fire quickly. Although the situation was mastered quickly, three people suffered smoke poisoning, two of whom were taken to the hospital for security. The exact cause of the fire is currently unclear, which led to a determination of the criminal police that secured the crime scene.

consequences for the residents

As a result of the fire, 20 residents are temporarily accommodated in another accommodation to ensure their security.

In parallel to this incident, the fire statistics project in refugee accommodation is also important. This project, which has been collecting data on fire events in Germany since January 1, 2015, has the goal of giving an insight into the situation and the need to improve fire protection in refugee accommodation, as inuri.de

The fire events are recorded by an internet-based evaluation of press releases and reports via a web form. So far, several hundred fire events have been documented in 2015 and 2016, with the majority being due to flue gas intertoxics.