Bavaria: Mowing work causes field fires

Vilseck (dpa / lby) - During mowing work, sparks together with the drought caused three fires in several fields in the Amberg-Sulzbach district.

Bavaria: Mowing work causes field fires

Vilseck (dpa / lby) - During mowing work, sparks together with the drought caused three fires in several fields in the Amberg-Sulzbach district. The fire happened in Vilseck, the police said. The fire spread to two other fields and caused damage of between 3,000 and 4,000 euros over an area of ​​around 10,000 square meters.

In Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate, too, the police suspect flying sparks from a combine harvester as the cause of the fire in a field. The field burned down over a length of 200 meters and a width of 50 meters. The resulting damage amounts to around 3000 euros.

A technical defect in a press machine for straw bales is suspected to be the cause of a fire in a field in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, the police said. About 1.5 hectares burned down. The exact extent of the damage caused was not initially known. Nobody was injured in the fires.