Fire alarm in Rietz – oven heated and house left: fire in Tyrol

Fire alarm on Sunday night in Rietz in the Tyrolean Oberland: A fire broke out in the basement of an apartment building. A man had previously heated an oven and then left the house. Another resident was woken up by a fire alarm.

At around 1 a.m., the resident living on the ground floor was awakened by the intense smell of smoke and a fire alarm. “The woman then immediately notified her daughter-in-law on the first floor, who then noticed the fire in the basement of the apartment building,” the police reported. A patrol was quickly on site, went down the smoky stairwell to the basement and carried out an initial fire-fighting attack there. “With the help of fire extinguishers and a garden hose, the police managed to bring the fire under control and eventually extinguish it,” according to the investigators. Embers came out of the oven. The arriving fire brigade then carried out post-extinguishing work and ventilated the building. What was the cause? According to the police, the resident living in the basement heated up a Swedish stove in the corridor area around 11 p.m. and then left the house. “In the process, embers must have come out of the combustion chamber and set fire to the carpeting or firewood stored next to the stove.” Luckily, no one was injured. The residential building is still habitable, the amount of damage caused cannot yet be quantified.
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