Bavaria: Several fires within a few hours

Mömbris (dpa / lby) - There were three forest and meadow fires in the Aschaffenburg district within a few hours.

Bavaria: Several fires within a few hours

Mömbris (dpa / lby) - There were three forest and meadow fires in the Aschaffenburg district within a few hours. Overall, on Tuesday afternoon and evening there was a fire in an area of ​​around 750 square meters, according to the fire brigade. A firefighter was injured while putting out the fire.

During the first fire near Angelsberg, a district of Mömbris, an area of ​​around 400 square meters at the edge of the forest and a pile of wood were on fire in the afternoon. A few hours later, the fire brigade was alerted again: several callers reported fires on the Hahnenkamm, an elevation between Mömbris and Alzenau. Around 90 emergency services searched the steep terrain and extinguished two more fires there. A firefighter was slightly injured. The two forest fires had areas of 300 and 50 square meters respectively.

The cause of the three fires was initially unknown. The fire brigade pointed out the current drought.