Wald fire in Thale almost deleted: dramatic use of the fire brigade!

Wald fire in Thale almost deleted: dramatic use of the fire brigade!

in Thale, in the Harz district, burned violently last night. A forest fire on the Lindenberg caused great damage and employed around 150 emergency services from Thale and the surrounding regions. The fire, which had recorded an area of ​​around 2,000 square meters, could largely be deleted after intensive extinguishing measures around 9:00 p.m. While the fire brigade fought in several sections, a warning of heavy smoke development had to be spent on the Warnapp Nina. A total of almost 200 firefighters were on duty on Tuesday evening to get the fire under control.

The difficult area on the fir head presented the emergency services with great challenges. In order to combat the flames efficiently, both drones and a fire aircraft were mobilized. The latter had been filled with extinguishing water in Hasselfelde and dropped water every 20 minutes - but without the use of a fire inhibitor retardant. As az-online, the last use of the extinguishing aircraft at 8:45 p.m. were contained. Nevertheless, there were some embers that flared up again and again, which assumed that the fire fighting was only possible on Wednesday evening.

In the region, there is currently a high risk of forest fires. In Saxony-Anhalt there is the forest fire theater level at level 4, while in the district of Wittenberg there is even the highest warning level. These circumstances underline the urgency of the situation and the efforts of the fire brigade to act quickly and efficiently. Like mdr, the fire frequently breaks out with totholz, which also makes fire fighting.