Great fire in Essen: dramatic scenes - seven flames on flames!

Great fire in Essen: dramatic scenes - seven flames on flames!

Lindenallee, 45127 Essen, Deutschland - A spectacular major fire kept down the Essen city center in the night of Monday. Shortly after 1 a.m., several callers reported a devastating roof truss fire in Lindenallee, where flames from a seven-story office and business building blazed, as fireworld.at reported. When the fire brigade arrived, the helpers were offered a dramatic picture: the flames ate themselves from the ground floor to the attic, and the view was severely restricted by thick, black smoke. Due to the intensive heat development, the most tangible window panes, and the emergency services immediately had to search the adjacent buildings in order to find possible endangered people. Fortunately, there were no more people in the buildings.

massive extinguishing attack and elaborate reversal work

With two beams and several hand -led pipes, the fire brigade started a massive extinguishing attack. To do this, the emergency services had to laboriously remove facade elements in order to reach behind the flame lying embers, which significantly complicated the situation. The heat of the fire was so intense that the fire brigade caused it to increase the alarm level and to request additional help, such as added. A total of around 80 firefighters were on duty to fight the flames and to free the affected areas of smoke.