Ideal horror scenario: the municipality shocks fatal fire in Lichtenberg

Ideal horror scenario: the municipality shocks fatal fire in Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg, Österreich - in Lichtenberg, Upper Austria, a tragic misfortune occurred on Tuesday, December 3, 2024. A chimney sweepers discovered a fire in a remote residential building and immediately alerted the emergency services. The fire brigade was on site with ten extinguishing teams to fight the fire while the situation was initially unclear. During the extinguishing work, the emergency services came across a lifeless person and a dog, both of whom did not survive the inferno. Any help came too late for the man - both the rescue workers and the alarmed emergency doctor could only determine death, such as fireworld.at reported.

The investigations on site are headed by the police crime scene group. So far, the authorities have assumed an accident. The fire department's head of operations immediately noticed a strong smoke development in the entire building, which made the rescue and extinguishing work difficult. Overall, the dramatic pictures of the site showed how quickly such a fateful scenario can develop and confirmed the assessment of the situation by the emergency services. This was also confirmed by meinzirk.at , who also reported on the incident.