Red alarm level: Over 200 forest fires in Brandenburg - fire brigade in continuous use!

Red alarm level: Over 200 forest fires in Brandenburg - fire brigade in continuous use!

Kleinbahren, Deutschland - in Brandenburg the air burns - and not only figuratively spoken. Over 200 forest fires have currently been registered in the state, which already exceeds the total number of the previous year. The forest fire season, which officially begins in March and lasts until September, has reached a devastating climax this year. [Süddeutsche] reports that a fire in the Gohrischheide in Saxony has spread to Brandenburg, tragically, two firefighters were severely burned.

Firefighters move from

Almost 65 emergency services from Brandenburg are currently on duty to combat the flames. The Spree-Neiße circle is particularly affected, where a fire attacks on a forest during mowing work, on an area of ​​about 3 hectares. There are 17 fire trucks here. In the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz, more precisely at Altdöbern, around 1 hectare of forest burns with 15 extinguishing vehicles that try to contain the flames here too.

Especially in Kleinbahren, in the Elbe-Elster district, a major damage situation has arisen, which has now been brought under control. This is the largest fire service that Brandenburg has recorded this year. Fortunately, post -extinguishing work took place to prevent a rebuilt. 150 emergency services burned on an area of ​​20 to 25 hectares. However, there were no injuries here: a total of five firefighters were injured in the missions on Tuesday.

evacuation as a precautionary measure

In the course of the fire expansion, the village of Kleinbahren was evacuated on Tuesday evening, which was related to massive smoke development. 52 people had to temporarily leave their houses while the access roads were sealed off by the police. However, the evacuation has now been canceled so that the residents can return. The fire in Sonnewalde in southern Brandenburg is now under control, but the fire brigade remains in action.

Another fire in the Elbe-Elster district expands to at least 13 hectares, the Interior Minister René Wilke appeals to mindfulness: "The danger to forest fires is high." The conditions are anything but ideal - the area is classified as "suspect of ordnance", which makes fire fighting considerably more difficult. In the meantime, the emergency services also use drones to clarify to keep an overview.

High risk of forest fire in Brandenburg

The situation in Brandenburg is particularly alarming because it has the highest forest fire hazard in Germany. According to [Tagesschau], the causes are diverse, but human failure is often called the reason for the fires. In addition, the geographical nature of pine forests, low precipitation and light sand soils contribute to the high risk.

The Federal Institute for Materials Research in Kummersdorf is also affected, here about 1 hectare area had recently risen in flames. In the past few decades, forest fire data has been brought together to enable forecasts and risk assessments and to minimize the destruction of forest areas. These statistics are important to reduce the number and area of ​​the forest fires in the future, because the protection of the forests is of great importance in densely populated countries like Germany, as [BLE] explains.

It remains to be seen that the emergency services can soon control the situation and that the residents in the affected areas will be able to return to their usual living conditions as soon as possible.