172 men in action

House and garage burn to the ground in Göming

A wild fire broke out in a residential building in the Göming district of Reinberg on Thursday evening

(Bild: Markus Tschepp)

Because the fire could not be brought under control at first, the Lamprechtshausen fire department issued a level four alert late on Thursday evening in the Göming district of Reinberg.

The fire on a farm in Göming on Thursday evening led to a large-scale operation involving almost a dozen fire departments from Salzburg and neighboring Bavaria. No one was injured in the fire and the owners were able to escape in time. However, the house and a directly attached garage were completely destroyed by the fire. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined and the amount of property damage is currently unknown.

The first fire departments were alerted at around 9.50 pm. Due to the difficult supply of extinguishing water on site, the incident commander called the highest alert level 4 after a few minutes. "When we arrived, the building was already fully engulfed in flames," said Göming local fire brigade commander Alfred Stummvoll. "Not only were machines and vehicles stored in the workshop, but also several gas cylinders, one of which had burst."

Neighboring farmers helped with the extinguishing work
The firefighters therefore not only had to proceed with extreme caution, they also had to lay water pipes to two extinguishing ponds 400 and 700 meters away and set up a shuttle service with fire engines to get water to the scene of the fire. Neighboring farmers also supported the extinguishing work with slurry barrels.

The fire was finally declared "out" at around 3 a.m., but the fire department's clean-up work is likely to continue long into Friday. In total, over 200 firefighters were deployed to get the fire under control.