Large apartment fire in Neuss: Fire brigade saves neighbors from Rauchfalle!

Large apartment fire in Neuss: Fire brigade saves neighbors from Rauchfalle!

In the night of December 27, 2024, a devastating fire broke out in a residential and commercial building on Euskirchener Strasse in Neuss-Erfttal around 4:00 a.m. Attentive residents reported a smell of fire and thick smoke, which the fire brigade immediately put on alert. When the emergency services arrived, an apartment on the first floor was already in full fire, and flames hit the windows meter high. The situation was alarming because it was initially unclear whether there were still people in the apartment. A deletion and rescue attack was immediately started with 30 emergency services, such as fireworld.at reported.

quickly confirmed that there were no more residents in the affected apartment. Two teams under respiratory protection carried out fire fighting, while another team brought a person out of a neighboring apartment. A resident on the second floor had brought himself to safety by jumping to the canopy of the ground floor and was slightly injured. According to anc-newswire.de there was considerable damage to property during the extensive extinguishing work, so that at least one apartment is considered uninhabitable.

Fast reaction of the fire brigade

The fire department Neuss worked quickly and effectively to control the flames and then ventilate the heavily smoky areas. After about three hours, the site was handed over to the police, which immediately took up the cause of the fire. During the mission, Euskirchener Straße between Harffer Straße and Bedburger Straße was closed, which also endangered the situation. Overall, the fire left a picture of the destruction and a high material damage.