After the young fatalities last year, New Year’s Eve was certainly more fun in this country in terms of fireworks this year. Emergency services were still needed.
For the police, the start of the new year was positive this year, without fatal explosions: on the way to 2024, however, things were not entirely incident-free. With eight injuries, at least five fires and a dozen fires. cases of material damage, New Year’s Eve has put pressure on the emergency services in many places.
The boy’s hand is injured
In Wiener Neustadt, shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a twelve-year-old boy suffered the most serious injuries while cleaning up a used firework: for a previously unknown reason, the object exploded in his left hand, also injuring his eye and stomach. area. The boy was taken to hospital. A 31-year-old was also seriously injured when fireworks exploded in Gumpoldskirchen. The woman from the Mödling district was taken to hospital with injuries to her temple and ear.
Half as many injuries as last year
An illegal ball bomb – probably from the Czech Republic – killed a 17-year-old in Tulln. The force of the explosion set parts of his jacket on fire and the teenager suffered burns to his face. In Ennsdorf, Stockerau, Neulengbach and Rabenstein an der Pielach, five men between the ages of 20 and 58 were injured, mainly in the face, when setting off fireworks batteries.
In total, there were 164 reports and 14 executive mandates under the Pyrotechnics Act. The fire brigade was called to respond to a barn fire in Mitterreith in the Zwettl district: a rocket may have caused the flames.
Source: Krone
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