Bavaria: 175 hay bales on fire: around 100 firefighters on duty

Mömbris (dpa / lby) - Around 175 burning hay bales caused a large-scale operation by the fire brigade in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg. Because of the smoke and the fire that was visible from afar, a warning was issued via a warning app, a police spokesman said on Sunday. According to the fire brigade, almost 100 emergency services extinguished the fire in Mömbris for more than four hours on Saturday. Nobody got hurt. The extent of the damage and the cause of the fire were still unclear on Sunday morning.