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Fire brigade goes to the cinema: the alarm was a prank!
On November 9th, 2025, there were fire brigade operations in Aurich following a fire alarm in a cinema and the district hall. The cause was a defect.
Fire brigade goes to the cinema: the alarm was a prank!
On November 9, 2025, there was a fire brigade operation in Aurich that caused quite a stir. The fire department was called to a cinema center on Emder Strasse on Saturday evening after the cinema's automatic fire alarm system triggered an alarm. All visitors were immediately asked to leave the building while emergency services arrived to investigate. On site, the fire department quickly determined that there was no fire in the premises. The alarm was deliberately triggered by pressing a hand pressure detector, which is of course not okay. The police were also on site to clarify the matter and will examine appropriate measures. Fortunately, the fire department was able to reset the fire alarm system without further incident and the situation was quickly defused. The cinema staff were grateful for the effort and rewarded the firefighters with a load of freshly made popcorn, which lightened things up a bit and put the effort in a positive light. So much for the emergency call story, but that's not the only time that the fire alarm systems in Aurich made an operation necessary.
Technical breakdowns in the district hall
Just a few days earlier, on Wednesday morning, an automatic fire alarm system in the Aurich district building triggered an alarm. Here too, the fire brigade was quickly on the scene and went to investigate the premises. Emergency services found a defective smoke detector in the false ceiling area, which had activated the alarm. Fortunately, there were no employees in the administration building at the time, which prevented a more serious situation.
Firefighters discovered the alarm went off again after resetting the fire alarm system. It is suspected that a technical cause was responsible for the alarm. The incident was handed over to the responsible building manager, who will take care of eliminating the defect. This shows that unpleasant surprises can occasionally occur in public facilities that are caused by technical problems, as already reported in nordischepost.de.
At a time when technology is playing an increasingly important role in all areas of life, it is important to keep track of technical defects and their causes. Perhaps in the future we should also ask ourselves to what extent such systems can be further optimized in order to reduce false alarms, such as those that have already occurred twice within a short period of time in Aurich.
Sometimes such incidents lead to a small moment of shock, but in the end it becomes clear that the fire brigade and rescue workers act quickly and thus protect the population as best as possible.