Numerous firefighters in Biedermannsdorf (Lower Austria) are still on site to extinguish embers after the huge hall fire. Four firefighters were injured. The fire was only extinguished at 12:30. One of the ‘sparkling ideas’ to finally put an end to the sea of flames: an excavator!
Right next to the southern motorway (A2) near Wiener Neudorf, a huge fire raged for hours from Tuesday afternoon. A 1,500 square meter hall full of decorative materials caught fire and the huge column of smoke could be seen as far as Vienna.
Large contingent of emergency services
There were 316 firefighters from 13 fire departments on the scene. Drivers sometimes had to reduce their speed due to the severe obstruction of visibility caused by the smoke and the population of the three communities Biedermannsdorf, Wiener Neudorf and Mödling were asked to close all windows and doors to protect themselves from the smoke.
Fighting fires from the highway
Soon, a lane on the southern motorway (A2) was closed so that a fire brigade could carry out the extinguishing attack from this side of the huge hall. In the course of the long battle against the hall inferno, an excavator was driven onto the motorway at around 11 p.m. and began tearing away parts of the hall facade from this side in order to better combat the flames, reported Paul Fastner of the Mödling district fire command.
Long fight and long wait
“The fire was extinguished at 12:30,” Fastner told the Krone. The exposed embers and smaller fires were extinguished by the fire station. The fire was prevented from spreading to adjacent halls and an extension of the burned-out hall. However, the hall is in danger of collapsing and therefore an attack from the inside was quickly called off on Tuesday. A high-voltage power line in the immediate vicinity of the hall also made fighting the fire more difficult. In addition, four injured firefighters had to be treated on site.
“The extinguishing work will take all day,” says Biedermannsdorf’s operational manager and fire chief Bernhard Tröszter. In addition to the extinguishing work, an investigation into the cause of the fire is already underway; so far, there have been no speculations about the cause of the fire. The high-voltage line above the Inferno Hall is also now being examined.
Source: Krone
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