The dishwasher in Gladbeck sets apartment on fire - fire brigade rushes immediately!

The dishwasher in Gladbeck sets apartment on fire - fire brigade rushes immediately!

on Tuesday evening, May 27, 2025, there was a fire in a row house on the Strickholtstraße in Gladbeck, which was triggered by a dishwasher. According to Fireworld , the emergency services were alerted at 8:59 p.m. A visible smoke development and a fire note from a kitchen window could already be seen when they arrive.

The Gladbeck fire brigade arrived with various units, including the full-time fire and rescue station, an emergency doctor vehicle and several voluntary fire trucks. Fortunately, all residents had left the building before the rescue workers arrived. These started immediately with the fire fighting, with a squad under heavy respiratory protection going into the kitchen, where the fire struck out of the dishwasher.

efficient fire fighting

The emergency services were able to quickly delete the fire with a C-pipe and then to extract the apartment with a ventilation device. For safety, the kitchen was also checked for hidden embers with a thermal imaging camera. As a precaution, all residents were examined by the emergency services, whereby no injuries or flue gas damage were determined.

This incident is not the first fire in Gladbeck, which had to be mastered by the fire brigade. A similar deployment took place on March 28, 2021 in Klarastraße, where the fire brigade was alerted to a apartment fire in a six -family house. A strong smoke was also found there, but there were no people in the fire apartment. According to Local Compass , the use of the operating troops prevented the flames prevented become. After about ten minutes, "fire out" was reported, and the affected apartment had to be declared uninhabitable for the time being.

Statistical dimensions of the causes of fire

The frequency and cause of such fires are also recorded statistically. The VDS damage prevention is an institution that collects data on the causes of fire and sequences in cooperation with other facilities. These statistics are open to the public and include the cause of the fire of the Institute for Damage and Damage Research (IFS) as well as police crime statistics (PKS). The common goal of these surveys is to increase security and to focus more on burning devices such as dishwashers in order to avoid such incidents in the future.

The emergency services in Gladbeck will continue to be practiced regularly in the future and prepare for such operations in order to avert worse. In both cases, the quick reaction and good coordination of the fire brigade was crucial for avoiding personal injury.