Great fire in the parking garage: Bad Wörishofen in the flames!

Great fire in the parking garage: Bad Wörishofen in the flames!

Parkhaus am Bahnhof Bad Wörishofen, 86825 Bad Wörishofen, Deutschland - In Bad Wörishofen, Bayern, brach am Freitagabend, dem 10. Januar 2025, ein verheerender Großbrand im Parkhaus am Bahnhof aus. The fire brigade received the first emergency call about a car fire at 6:20 p.m., but shortly after the first emergency services arrived, the alarm level was increased to B5, which resulted in the support of other fire brigades from Mindelheim and surrounding communities, as fireworld.at berichtete. The flames hit the openings of the parking garage, and rail traffic had to be stopped because the building was in the immediate vicinity of the tracks.

Intensive Löschaktionen und Rauchwarnungen

Around 160 firefighters were on duty to combat the thundering flames, while a column of smoke that is visible from afar. Local residents were called to close windows and doors and switch off their ventilation in order to protect themselves from the harmful flue gases, such as Augsburger-allgemeine.de reported. The fire was finally brought under control at 9:30 p.m., but since then the parking garage has been inaccessible due to the potentially unstable structure.

The cause of the fire is currently unclear, but initial investigations indicate that a car could have caught fire, which made the flames drive into the roof structure of the parking garage. Zahlreiche Fahrzeuge wurden zerstört, und erste Schätzungen gehen von einem Schaden in Millionenhöhe aus. In addition, a large fan was used to free the parking garage from the ascending smoke, while the fire brigade had to reduce its extinguishing water requirement from local waters. Fortunately, there were no injuries, and the emergency services had to adjust to a longer duration of the use to prevent further flare up of the fire.