Meter-high flames

Night owl discovers fire in the town center

The barn on the village square in Feldkirchen an der Donau burned down completely.

(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / MARTIN SCHARINGER)

On Saturday night in Feldkirchen an der Donau, nothing remained of a barn that burned to the ground in the center of town. A night owl had discovered the meter-high flames and raised the alarm. The cause of the fire is still unclear, but arson is suspected.

"When we got there, I saw that the fire had spread to the neighboring house," reports incident commander Simon Berger from the Feldkirchen an der Donau fire department. The windows of the building, next to which a barn was completely engulfed in flames, had already burst at around 1 am.

Luckily, the house was unoccupied and no one was in the barn. No one was therefore injured in the fire.

"Fire in the middle of the village square"
A night owl had discovered the flames in the barn, where wood was stored, and raised the alarm. "We launched a fire-fighting attack from all sides," says Berger. "The challenge was that the fire was in the middle of the village square. There was a lot of flying sparks."

A total of six fire departments and around 150 firefighters were deployed. For the Feldkirchen volunteer fire department, the work was not finished until around 5 a.m.

Investigation underway
The police are still investigating the cause of the fire. At the moment, arson cannot be ruled out, as both the barn and the neighboring building were unoccupied. And only recently, woodpiles burned down in the neighboring community ...