Fire brigade extinguished – water rescue discovers car fire in parking lot

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Spectacular fire in supermarket parking lot in Mondsee (Upper Austria): A car was on fire. The fire was discovered by a rescue team from Mondsee.

Normally they rescue seamen, rowers or swimmers who were in distress. But Wednesday around 11 p.m. they were on another mission. Water rescue services accidentally discovered a car on fire in the parking lot of a supermarket.

removal attempts
The four members immediately tried to extinguish the fire with various hand extinguishers, but were unsuccessful. Fortunately, they had called the fire brigade in advance and were there quickly. The immediately deployed extinguishing measures with heavy respiratory protection brought rapid extinguishing success, but could not prevent the car from completely burning out.

car completely destroyed
Operations manager Matthias Döllerer: “We had the fire under control quickly, luckily the burning car was in the middle of the parking lot and not close to the newly built shopping center!” The operation of the 45 firefighters was over after about an hour

The owner of the car, a 73-year-old from Vöcklabruck, had previously parked the burning vehicle in the parking lot and left immediately. The parking lot was badly damaged by the fire over an area of ​​about 25 square meters.

Source: Krone

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