Fire alarm in St. Pölten: Fire brigade extinguishes fire in printing!

Fire alarm in St. Pölten: Fire brigade extinguishes fire in printing!

in the press house in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, broke out a fire on Monday afternoon. According to the NÖN , an exhaust air condition of a printing machine ignited around 5:00 p.m. The fire brigade immediately received the alarm and moved out with a 35-person fire troop, while the aerial ladder of the St. Pölten-Stadt fire brigade was also used. Fortunately, there were no injuries, as the ORF Niederösterreich reported.

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The fire brigade assumes that paper schnitzel that had accumulated in the ventilation of the printing press triggered the fire. The section commander Mateusz Fryn explained that the fire remained limited to the ventilation tube. Despite the deployment of numerous firefighters, it quickly managed to bring the flames under control, which led to a quick end to the dangerous situation.

The quick reaction of the fire brigade and the lack of injured people give rise to relief. Nevertheless, the incident showed how dangerous fires can be in industrial areas, even if they are limited to individual components. The affected branches are now still attentively monitored in order to minimize possible risks.