Small cause, great effect: when charging, on Friday afternoon, Dr. Karl-Renner-Hof in Linz on a loggia on the first floor an e-bike battery. Pour and flue gases made different apartments unusable. 27 residents were temporarily housed in a nearby hotel. The GWG is now trying to find replacement apartments for you.
When the emergency services arrived at 3.15 pm, a loggia was on fire on the first floor. The fire was already scattered to the apartment, the facade and the stairs.
Five residents were admitted
The smoke was so strong that five residents were enclosed. Two were saved from the third floor with air ladder, three more evacuated using escape filter masks from the floors above, according to the Professional Fire Brigade. Parts of the facade had to be opened to extinguish Sintels. The affected apartments are currently uninhabitable. They were infected by the soot and the poison fumes of the burnt full thermal insulation.
Search for emergency accommodation
For GWG director Nikolaus Stadler, the stress only started afterwards. He had to find first aid for 27 residents. “In the beginning we brought the people to the Marriot Hotel. This is just 150 meters away. We hope that our building insurance will pay the costs. In principle, we always have three emergency rooms in the back. They are only Spartan, but a one of these apartments is occupied, the other two are just watching.”
Renner-Hof used to belong to chemistry
The GWG has a total of 20,146 apartments in Linz. The Dr.-Karl Renner-Hof previously belonged to the GWCL (Non-profit housing company of Chemie Linz A) and houses 105 tenants and 61 owners. The GWG took over the old residential complex in 2007.
Bitter for the cooperative: The Renner-Hof was renovated only a year and a half ago.
Source: Krone
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