The column of smoke could be seen from miles away: A fire in a logistics warehouse on Lindberghstraße in Freimann triggered a fire brigade operation with 110 emergency services.
Munich – A huge column of smoke rises into the sky, the smoke burns the eyes, it stings the nose. Firefighters rush over, onlookers gather at a safe distance. The inferno in Freimann *: Friday afternoon at around 11 a.m., a fire in an approximately 600 square meter warehouse * of a logistics company on Lindberghstraße triggered a fire brigade with 110 emergency services. One person was slightly injured and was treated briefly at the scene. The cause of the fire has not yet been clarified, it is being investigated, said a police spokesman yesterday. The amount of property damage is still unclear.
“Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured,” says the managing director of the affected logistics company Go Express & Logistics Rüdiger Neumann. At 10.45 a.m. he heard the siren and at first thought it was a test alarm. When he saw the roof burning, he was the last to leave the building and met his employees at the assembly point.
Halle in Freimann on fire – cause of fire unclear
It is still unclear how the fire could have happened. What is certain is that electric forklift trucks were stored and charged in the hall in question. Apart from that, files and trade fair papers are kept there, but no packages.
Neighbor Markus Klausen, who works at the recycling center across the street, was also an eyewitness to the disaster: “The fire could not be overlooked.” He was in the kitchen with his colleagues when he noticed it. “One trainee said relatively tritely that the roof was on fire. I also wanted to call the fire brigade directly, but I couldn’t get through.” No wonder: the column of smoke was visible all over Munich. Then the police came and evacuated them to the yard, says Klausen.
Fire in Freimann: hours of extinguishing work
At around 12 noon on Friday, a spokesman for the fire brigade finally announced that the fire was under control but had not yet been extinguished. The operation drags on, the roof of the hall is in danger of collapsing, which is why they cannot go directly into the hall to extinguish it. A crane had to lift the roof so that the emergency services could extinguish it from above. At the same time, it is important to prevent the fire from spreading to a neighboring office building.
Hours later, the after-extinguishing work continues, parts of the facade are removed so that the gathering storm doesn’t blow them away. What caused the fire remains open this Friday (February 18). However, everyone agrees: Fortunately, nothing bad happened to anyone. (Schuster/leo) *tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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