The professional fire brigade in Vienna went out 200 times on New Year’s Eve. At 10 p.m. on Saturday, heightened operational readiness was announced due to the steadily increasing number of incoming emergency calls. A Christmas tree, a balcony, a bus and a dumpster went up in flames. At the provincial control center in Vienna on 31.12. and 4341 emergency calls on New Year’s Day. Police officers were deployed around 1902. The main reasons for this were noise pollution, damage to property and illegal fireworks.
In the Schillgasse in Vienna-Floridsdorf, apartment owners first tried to fight a Christmas tree fire themselves. They eventually fled the building due to the heavy smoke development. The fire brigade extinguished the fire in the room and ventilated the stairwell and the apartment.
Shortly after midnight, a balcony of an apartment building on Meidlinger Zanaschkagasse caught fire. The fire crews fought the fire from the outside to prevent it from spreading and at the same time climbed into the building through a window to carry out post-extinguishing work.
Minibus on fire
A burning rubbish bin in the Laimgrubengasse in Mariahilf smoked the stairwell of a building. Respiratory protection teams extinguished the fire and checked neighboring apartments for smoke development. In the Herzgasse in Favoriten, a minibus has been extinguished in flames.
Numerous operations also for the police
For the Viennese police it was New Year’s Eve: 1902 moves. In the districts of Josefstadt, Simmering, Favoriten, Meidling, Floridsdorf and Liesing, cigarette vending machines, rubbish bins and telephone booths were repeatedly damaged by pyrotechnic objects. At the Praterstern, a 19-year-old threw firecrackers at the officers, trying to injure them. The 19-year-old Afghan was arrested. No one was injured.
Firecracker explosions: two people injured
Two people were injured in the explosion of fireworks on New Year’s Eve in Vienna. A 23-year-old man suffered serious hand injuries, the professional rescue service reported on Sunday. A tourist (27) from Germany has been brought back to life after a cardiac arrest by professional rescue teams in Alsergrund.
Around the turn of the year, the paramedics were called to the Kahlenberg in Döbling. There, they provided emergency medical care to the 23-year-old and administered painkillers to her. The patient was then taken to a clinic.
Firecracker ignited in hand
Shortly before 11 p.m., a distress call was made from Wienerbergstrasse in Meidling. A group of young people had thrown fireworks at an 18-year-old. According to his own statements, he believed that something had fallen out of his pocket and accidentally picked up the firecracker. He sustained injuries to his hand in the explosion and complained that his hearing had been affected. A Red Cross team took him to the hospital.
Tourist collapsed
A tourist from Germany collapsed at Roßauer Lände in Alsergrund around 5:15 p.m. on Saturday. A friend dialed the emergency number and, following instructions from the Vienna Rescue Coordination Center, began the chest compressions. The professional rescue teams took over and after a few minutes the heart started beating again. The man has been taken to hospital.
Source: Krone
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