New Year's Eve: Chaos by fireworks in Lower Austria!
New Year's Eve: Chaos by fireworks in Lower Austria!
The New Year's Eve of December 31, 2024 on January 1, 2025 in Lower Austria was shaped by numerous police operations. The State Police Directorate took stock that included a total of 201 ads and 251 confiscated pyrotechnic objects in 17 fuses. In connection with the celebrations, three accidents occurred in which three people were injured.
The incidents in which two police officers and a police officer were injured during monitoring of an event were particularly alarming. In addition, 15 property damage and 11 fires in connection with pyrotechnic objects were registered. The officials initiated a total of 14 organ mandates according to the Pyrotechnics Act.accidents with pyrotechnic objects
One of the injured is a 40-year-old from Neunkirchen, who lit a fireworks battery at 00:10 and was then brought to the Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt. A 17-year-old from Melk suffered serious injuries at 00:30 when a damaged rocket exploded in his hand; He was admitted to the Amstetten State Clinic. Another 17-year-old from Amstetten injured his eye at 00:40 after lit a fireworks and was transferred to the Steyr hospital.
Another incident occurred at the main square of Amstetten, where a 25-year at 00:10 pm threw a firecracker towards a police patrol, which brought three police officers a bang trauma and medical treatment.
further incidents and fires
Already on December 31, 2024 at 10:00 p.m., a 19-year-old from Horn had fired Pyrotechnic objects against a house in Weitersfeld, which led to the advertisement from the Krems public prosecutor on the Danube. In addition, there were several fires due to fired pyrotechnic objects, under which a garbage container, two cars and a Thujahecke caught fire. At 00:50 on January 1, 2025, a fire was reported in the garbage room of a residential area in Weigelsdorf, which was deleted by the volunteer fire brigade. The fire brigade had to evacuate the apartment building.
A total of seven people were injured by firecrackers, and numerous operations from the fire brigade were necessary to extinguish fires in different areas, including a fire in a housing estate.
eye injuries that often occur when using pyrotechnic objects are often due to a too low safety distance. Heiko Kraus, guardian of the NEUSS Mitte rescue station, recommends not to remove them yourself for foreign bodies in the eye and instead to see an emergency room or rescue center instead. The first measures include covering the affected eye with a steward wound pad and the careful combination of both eyes to immobilize and pain relief. To avoid injuries, the Johanniter advises to comply with the recommended safety distance and to wear protective glasses, as in an article by Stadt-Kurier
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