Smoke detector saves man in Althofen: he slept with the stove switched on!

Smoke detector saves man in Althofen: he slept with the stove switched on!

Althofen, Österreich - In the nightly Althofen there was a dangerous incident that required the quick action of an attentive neighbor. On March 1, 2025, around 01:00 a.m., a 41-year-old man wanted to heat water in a saucepan in his apartment while he relaxed with the television in the bedroom. Unfortunately, the man did not switch off the hob and fell asleep. Like Kleinezeitung.at , the man was brought to the Friesach hospital with suspicion.

repeated fire brigade use

This incident is not the first of its kind in Carinthia: recently there was only a similar assignment in which a man also fell asleep while cooking. It is even the third fire service in this apartment within just two months. A fact that is likely to worry about both the emergency services and the neighborhood. While the cause of the incident is still being examined, it remains to be seen whether costs or damage have arisen in the fire service.