“The rescue was successful at the last point,” Reinhold Wimmer, the commander of the Irndorf fire brigade, is delighted that everything ended well in the fire in Kremsmünster. The emergency call came in shortly after 10:30 p.m.
A 62-year-old nurse from Romania described that there was a fire in the house on the ground floor, that she was stuck on the first floor and could not reach her protégé (80) on the ground floor. The firefighters had to act quickly and smashed the window to the 80-year-old’s bedroom on the ground floor: “She was sitting on the bed and struggling for air,” reports the fire brigade commander, explaining how tight it was, because the smoke was already spreading from the neighboring room. A couch was in full fire here.Rescued via a ladderBecause of the smoke, the helpers decided not to take the trapped caregiver through the stairwell, but to bring them outside using a leaning ladder and thus to safety. The 60-year-olds had to “talk well” to the youngsters of Floriani, there were helpers from three fire departments on duty. Finally, the Romanian woman dared to climb out of the window onto the extension ladder and climb down with the help of a fireman. Technical defect on the radio Both women were taken to the hospital by the Red Cross with suspected smoke inhalation, and two firefighters were involved in the rescue operation slightly injured. According to initial investigations, a technical defect in a radio could have triggered the fire.
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