Balcony fire in Kassel: father and son with smoke poisoning in the hospital!

On Monday morning, a balcony fire occurred in Kassel-Town city, which took both a father and his three-year-old child to the hospital. The fire broke out in an apartment building in Körnerstrasse around 3 p.m. after residents alerted the fire brigade and police, as . A 26-year-old resident initially tried to extinguish the fire itself, but inhaled smoke and had to be treated on site.

In the night before, the fire brigade in Hamburg had to deploy several major missions, in which fires were also reported in apartment buildings. In the Lurup district, a fire broke out at the Lüdersring at 10:15 p.m. on a balcony, which quickly spread to the apartment above. The 82-year-old tenant suffered smoke poisoning and was taken to the hospital, while eleven further apartments and a shop were checked by the fire brigade, such as Bild reported.

Another fire occurred in Horn, where an advent light probably triggered a fire service. The resident in question was taken to the hospital with flue gas poisoning. In addition, there was a third fire in Rothenburgsort, in which a 38-year-old man suffered severe burns and had to go to the hospital with suspicion of flue gas poisoning. In this case, an apartment building was no longer habitable after the fire, and 16 residents had to take advantage of the surrounding accommodations.