200 drivers needed a lot of patience on Sunday night in an underground parking garage in Stuttgart: all garage doors were closed due to a defective fire alarm – pigeon droppings had apparently caused a short circuit. The fire brigade had to cut open a fence
The incident took place in the underground parking garage under the Kleiner Schlossplatz. “The conditions were actually quite wild,” a spokesperson for the Stuttgart fire brigade told Bild. The Florianis should actually have been notified by a smoke detector. “There was nothing there, we were only called by the police after two hours.” The drivers ultimately had to wait three hours before being released.
The prisoners filmed the liberation
“We didn’t get there until around three o’clock and sawed open a gate, which was finished after an hour. The people in the underground parking garage were celebrating us firefighters,” the spokesperson continued. Many trapped people filmed as the cut-out part of the gate fell to the ground, allowing them to find their way to freedom.
Photos of the operation in the underground parking garage:
Closing gate almost demolished BMW
Before the fire brigade arrived, some electricians, who also happened to be locked in the garage, had tried to solve the problem on the switch box, but without success. An affected person, who had previously visited a bar with friends, described dramatic moments: “There were roller doors on the left and right of our BMW. Suddenly these gates also began to close. If our driver had not pushed the gate back through the open window, the car would have been destroyed.”
Those affected demand lifelong parking rights
A driver wants compensation after being caught by the defect. In a letter to the operator of the underground parking garage, she demanded lifelong parking rights in all German underground parking garages of the company for all victims of the false alarm. There is only one employee have the key to turn off the smoke detector and unlock the gates. However, he was unavailable for hours.
Source: Krone
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