Balcony fire in Kassel: 26-year-old and son with smoke poisoning to the hospital!

In the night of Monday there was a balcony fire in a multi-family house on Körnerstrasse in Kassel-Town City. Like ffh reported, alarmed residents at around 3 a.m. the fire brigade and the police. A 26-year-old resident tried to extinguish the fire himself, but inhaled smoke and had to be treated on site. The resident and his three -year -old son were taken to a hospital with the suspicion of smoke poisoning. The boy slept in an adjacent room at the time of the fire. The estimated damage amounts to around 20,000 euros.

First investigations indicate that the fire was triggered by a fully cooled coal of a hookah that set a seat set on the balcony.

Fire brigade missions on Christmas Eve in Hamburg

In the meantime, the fire brigade in Hamburg had to deploy several major missions in Hamburg on Christmas Eve. In Lurup, a fire broke out on a balcony on the first floor around 10:15 p.m., although the cause has so far been unclear. The fire quickly spread to the apartment above, whereby the Christmas tree of the resident went up in flames. As Image , an 82-year tenant suffered smoke poisoning and was taken to the hospital. Eleven other apartments and a shop were checked by the fire brigade. The use lasted more than two hours.

in Horn there was another incident when a woman probably slept in her apartment and an advent light triggered a fire. The neighbors noticed the smoke and alerted the fire brigade. The resident was hospitalized with flue gas poisoning.

A third use occurred in Rothenburgsort, where a fire in an apartment building made it necessary to evacuate the entire building. A 38-year-old man was taken to the hospital with severe burns on the arms and suspected flue gas poisoning. The fire broke out in the stairwell, the exact cause is still unclear.