Roofing fire in Urbach-Kirchdorf: fire brigade in large-scale use!

Roofing fire in Urbach-Kirchdorf: fire brigade in large-scale use!

On January 21, 2025, around 9:24 p.m. in Urbach-Kirchdorf, a roof structure fire in a single-family house. The Montabaur control center alerted the fire brigades from Dernbach, Dierdorf and Puderbach with alarm level B3. When they arrived, the emergency services found a heavily smoky attic. It was suspected that a technical defect had caused a smoke problem after a power failure.

Around 60 firefighters were on duty to combat the fire. The emergency services carried out a targeted internal attack under respiratory protection. A quick location and deletion of the smoldering fire was planned, while a high -performance fan was used to smoke out the attic. To track down embers and remove damaged insulation, open the wooden beam ceiling. The first damage report was positive: the scope of the damage was less than initially expected.

efficient measures by the fire brigade

An electrician was consulted to disconnect the damaged power lines and the house could remain habitable. There were no personal injury, and at 10:40 p.m. weir and operations manager Alexander Neuer handed over the site to the owners. This assignment in Urbach-Kirchdorf was not the only one of the day: Puderbach and Raubach had already used an aid mission at noon. Despite the stress of deployment, groups such as the police from the street house, the regular rescue service and the local DRK unit worked together efficiently.

Another scene of roofing fires shows the challenges that the firefighters often meet. On August 5, 2013 in Gerbrunn, several fire departments were alerted to a roof truss fire in Sandbühlstrasse. Here, too, the team arrived determined strong smoke development in the roof area and immediately equipped itself with heavy breathing protection.

course of the operations

The Gerbrunn fire brigade was used with several vehicles, including an HLF 20/24 and a TLF 16/25. While the emergency services localized and deployed the fire stove in the attic apartment, others ensured traffic safety and the necessary water supply. The fire was due to a smoldering fire due to welding work. After about 20 minutes the fire was extinguished and the post -extinguishing work ended, while a construction worker had to be taken to the hospital with flue gas poisoning.

The fire brigades from Rottendorf and Randersacker supported the use in Gerbrunn and left the site, while the fire brigade remained Gerbrunn to check the roof structure with a thermal imaging camera. A roofing company was consulted for checking the last embers, and the site was finally handed over to the specialist company and the homeowner at 1:00 p.m.

These incidents underline the critical role of the fire brigade in combating fires and the protection of human life. It also shows how important a quick alarm and effective cooperation between different units is to prevent worse things.