Waldbrand in Klausen-Leopoldsdorf: Wanderer prevents worse!

Waldbrand in Klausen-Leopoldsdorf: Wanderer prevents worse!

Klausen-Leopoldsdorf, Österreich - A attentive hiker prevented worse on February 23, 2025 in Klausen-Leopoldsdorf when he alerted the volunteer fire brigade at 12:44 p.m. The hiker noticed ascending smoke near wooden rack work and hesitated not to choose the emergency call 122. This determined step made it possible for the rescue workers to act quickly and to extinguish a small fire that had already used an area of ​​about a square meter of forest floor. The rapidly arriving firefighters of FF Klausen-Leopoldsdorf, who were on site with several vehicles and 13 emergency services, were able to prevent worse, such as fireworld.at reported.

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The emergency services deleted the fire with the help of a quick attack device after clearing the area around the fire stove with special tools. This measure was crucial to prevent the fire from spreading in the heavily dried forest floor. "In the course of this, we would like to praise the hiker, the intervention of which a further spread of the fire could be stopped," commented a fire brigade spokesman. In addition, a police patrol was sent to the fire site in order to start an investigation into the cause of the fire. Even in winter, despite some rainfall, there is a danger to forest fires, since the soils are still very dry, which emphasizes meinbezirk.at .