Firefighting difficult

Farm on fire, 16 fire departments in action

A farm building in St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz was on fire on Monday afternoon.

(Bild: Matthias Lauber/laumat.at)

Alarm level three! 16 fire departments were called to St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz (Upper Austria) on Monday afternoon to deal with a fully engulfed farmhouse fire. A farm building was in flames and the hilly terrain made extinguishing the fire challenging.

The first fire departments arrived in St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz at around 1.30 p.m. on Monday and were gradually alerted until a total of 17 fire departments were deployed. The farm building of a farm was on fire.

No casualties
The most important thing: there have been no reports of injuries so far. And the cows, which were housed in an outbuilding of the building on fire, were probably also safe.

Difficult extinguishing work
The firefighters were able to prevent the flames from spreading to the residential building. However, the extinguishing work proved to be challenging, as the supply of water in the hilly terrain was not easy. According to the police, the cause can be assumed to be the ignition of straw from the hot exhaust of the farm loader. No people or animals were injured in the blaze.

A curious fact: during the operation, the B134 had to be closed in the area of the junction with the B129 because a fire department had made a mishap and a slippery carpet of foam had formed on the road. The clean-up took about an hour.