According to police, a fire in an apartment building in Oberissigheim caused damage in the mid-six-figure range. Luckily no one was injured.

Bruchköbel – A fire in an apartment building in a Bruchköbel district caused extensive property damage on Saturday afternoon (February 28th). As the Bruchköbel fire department reports, the rescue workers were alerted to a balcony fire on Diebacher Straße in Oberissigheim at around 4:10 p.m.

Fire in an apartment building – firefighters save cat from apartment

According to the fire department, when the first emergency services arrived, the situation was more dramatic than initially expected: the fire had already spread to an apartment on the second floor. Despite an immediate extinguishing attack, the fire continued to spread and eventually reached the roof of the apartment building.

Additional forces were then alerted to provide support, including the inner city department of the Bruchköbel fire department and a second turntable ladder from the Nidderau fire department. Several crews wearing respiratory protection were deployed in both interior and exterior attacks to bring the fire under control. According to police, the residents had already left the building on their own. Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire.

A respiratory protection team was able to bring a cat outside uninjured from a neighboring apartment affected by the fire and hand it over to its owners, as the fire department also reports. According to the fire department, the residents of the seven residential units were unable to return to their apartments on the day of the fire. They were accommodated elsewhere. According to initial police estimates, the apartment building suffered material damage of around 400,000 to 500,000 euros. Officials were unable to provide any information about the cause of the fire. The police are investigating.

A few days earlier, a jogger was honored for his moral courage: Maximilian Seng from Bruchköbel got a man out of a burning house.