Fire drama in forest moisture: residential building burns to the roof!

on Tuesday evening, January 1, 2025, a fire broke out in a house on Furter Strasse in Waldfeucht. The alarm went into the fire brigade at 7:27 p.m. When she arrived, it turned out that the fire had already burned up to the roof area. An uninhabited cultivation near the garage was affected. The fire brigade was able to control the fire after about an hour, there were no injuries. Due to the deletion measures, the district road 5 was completely closed for about an hour, as the Aachener Zeitung reported.

A similar incident occurred on Tuesday evening, December 6, 2022, in Selm. Here the fire brigade was alerted at 8:45 p.m. Fire chief Thomas Isermann confirmed that the fire had developed under a blanket of the house. The fire trucks 1 and 2 from Selm and Bork as well as an ambulance were deployed. The site was between the junctions to Haus-Berge-Straße and the Schützenweg. There were no injuries in this incident either. However, the apartment was temporarily uninhabitable after the extinguishing campaign. The fire brigade opened the ceiling area to extinguish embers and the use lasted until midnight, followed by a fire guard on site. The cause of the fire is unclear, and the investigation by the criminal police has been initiated, such as the Ruhr Nachrichten.