On Friday afternoon there was a large fire brigade operation on Simmeringer Hauptstrasse. The reason was a basement fire in an apartment building. There are several slightly injured people.
A basement fire in Vienna-Simmering on Friday afternoon resulted in several slightly injured people and numerous people being evacuated. Business premises on the ground floor A large fire brigade was busy checking the apartments in an apartment building on Simmeringer Hauptstrasse for smoke. The residents of the smoke-filled apartments were brought outside by respiratory protection teams wearing escape masks. There are also commercial premises on the ground floor of the residential building, which have already been evacuated accordingly. “We are currently busy fighting this basement fire using two extinguishing lines and with several respiratory protection teams,” said a fire department spokesman to “Krone”. A fire was reported at 2:15 p.m.
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