Fire alarm early Thursday afternoon in Tyrol’s Angerberg (Kufstein district): During locksmith work, a small workshop under a single-family house caught fire. About 100 firefighters were deployed to fight the blaze. The house is uninhabitable, three people, including a firefighter, had to be taken to hospital.
Shortly before 1:30 p.m., a fire broke out in the small locksmith workshop under the family home. During flexible work, the floor began to burn, Angerberg fire chief Andreas Perthaler described to the “Krone”: “The landlord tried to extinguish it himself, but immediately reached its limits.”
Gas cylinders posed a danger
The fire brigades Angerberg, Angath, Wörgl and the company fire brigade of the Kundl company Novartis arrived with about 100 emergency services and 13 vehicles. The Novartis company fire brigade’s special forces were needed because several gas cylinders were stored in the workshop that were in danger of bursting. “They have been professionally salvaged and are now being refrigerated,” Commander Perthaler said.
The fire service eventually had the fire under control and was able to extinguish the fire later in the afternoon. Three people had to be taken to Kufstein Hospital with suspected smoke inhalation. It concerns two of the residents of the house and a firefighter. The damage to the house is enormous: “The workshop burned out, the single-family house above it was so badly damaged that it is no longer habitable,” says Perthaler.
Source: Krone
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