Return oak beetle in retreat: Palatinate forest breathes up!

Return oak beetle in retreat: Palatinate forest breathes up!

Donnersbergkreis, Deutschland - The situation in the greater Kaiserslautern area is tense - various explosive events cause excitement! While the Donnersbergkreis has to deal with a scandalous gas billing problem, the experts in the Palatinate Forest prove to be true heroes in the fight against oak beetle!

less oak beetle, more hope!

Good news for the oaks in the Palatinate Forest! This year, the oak beetle - the dreaded pest, which repeatedly caused great damage last year - is significantly less active. Due to the wet summer, the tree giants have less drought stress thanks to the wet summer, which helps them to defend themselves successfully against this plague. Thanks to targeted protective measures by the forester, infected trees have already been felled and removed from the forest. Now only the winter has to get really cold to put the pest out of it!

gas billing chaos in the Donnersbergkreis!

In the Donnersberg district, it is bubbling: false gas bills cause unrest among the citizens! The Donnersberger initiative for people in need draws attention to the fact that refugees in particular are affected that do not know how to pay their gas bills. Many invoices are based on valued meter readings, and the gas price brake was often ignored. The outcry is sound: a regional energy supplier is criticized and was warned by the consumer center. While the company claims that the problems have been resolved, the association is considering initiating legal steps through a class action!

In addition, the Otterbach fire brigade was allowed to cope with an emergency on Saturday: Around 1,000 liters of diluted spraying agents expired after tipping over a trailer. The emergency services prevented potential environmental damage and were in use for nine hours to prevent worse things. These heroic acts of the fire brigade shoot our groundwater from accidental contamination.

Another alarm beats in the Kusel district: Here was a wave of car theft, in which vehicles in Bedesbach, Altenglan and Rammelsbach were broken up after the perpetrators hit the windows. The police warn of the deeds and call up the population for vigilance - do not leave any valuables in the car!