Great fire in the port of Hamburg: Fire brigade fights against Flammeninferno

Great fire in the port of Hamburg: Fire brigade fights against Flammeninferno

A major fire in the Veddel district of Hamburg has been ensuring extensive operations from the fire brigade since Monday afternoon, August 26, 2025. The fire broke out in a warehouse where a vehicle parked in the hall, loaded with laugh gas bottles, could not be brought under control at first. Explosions and scouring around the extinguishing work significantly difficult, which caused the rescue workers to go to safety up to several hundred meters. A dense, black column of smoke, which is already visible from afar, as [NDR] (https://www.ndr.de/achrichten/hamburg/explosions-im-hamburger-sueden-feuerwehr-kaempf-mit-grossbrand ,feuer-268.html) runs over the entire city.

The fire brigade is on site with hundreds of emergency services, but the extinguishing work can still take several days. Until the last embers are deleted, patience is required. In the early morning hours of today, it was planned to tear off part of the affected warehouse in order to get the flames specifically, according to Kleine Zeitung.

Violate and evacuations

A total of five injuries are reported, including two firefighters who were taken to the hospital with a bang trauma. One person is in a life -threatening state while another was seriously injured. The police and the fire brigade were able to bring 25 people from the danger area to safety, with eight of them being evacuated by boat. Residents were asked to keep windows and doors closed via Warnapps and Social Media to protect themselves from heavy smoke development.

The traffic near the fire location was severely affected and the A1 was temporarily completely closed. Parts of exploding compressed gas containers flew to the highway and caused another injured person. The traffic jam in the area reached lengths of up to twelve kilometers, such as NDR.

Deletion tactics and support

To support the extensive extinguishing work, police were also sent to the site with armored water cannons. Furthermore, powerful special vehicles from the airport fire brigade were used. Technical support received the emergency services from the technical relief organization, which installed light masts and water pumps in order to improve the visual and extinguishing conditions. Despite the damage to the warehouse and the exploding containers, sea shipping is not affected, but there was impairments in the internal and port ship traffic. The port management HPA set up locks in strategically important waterway to ensure the security situation.

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