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Coswig (Anhalt) – Flammeninferno in the district of Wittenberg! On the edge of the small village Serno in Saxony-Anhalt burned in the night on Wednesday 40 hectares of bright lights. This area corresponds to 56 football fields
On Tuesday, a field was lit early in the evening. Due to the continuous drought and high temperatures, the initially small fire spread rapidly, soon there was an adjacent forest in flames.
Also on Wednesday morning firefighters are still fighting against the sea of flames. Task Manager Peter Nössler: "There are currently around 200 working groups in the field." These came not only from the region, but also from Brandenburg and 80 kilometers from Magdeburg.
The Technical Relief Agency (THW) arrived shortly before 1 pm to help comrades in the fire-fighting measures. Extinction water was pumped continuously from an outdoor pool about a kilometer away
The operation is expected to continue throughout Wednesday. .
UPDATED, 7.53: [19659009] Meanwhile, 60 hectares of arable and woodland are burning. A total of 14 fire brigades from the district of Wittenberg, 6 fire brigades from Brandenburg and the professional firefighters from Magdeburg should have been involved in the operation. A firefighting helicopter from the Bundeswehr was on site. Due to a slope fire already Highway 9 between the connection points Dessau is and Coswig heading to Berlin on Tuesday night was locked for several hours. The two fires, however, were on different operations, a police spokesman said Wednesday morning.
UPDATE, 12:30 clock: 80 hectares of land are burned. The fire is under control, a spokesman for the operations control center in Wittenberg said on Wednesday afternoon. However, many firefighters are still on hand to fight the remaining brooding nests and prevent the fire from re-emerging at these locations. 80 hectares correspond to the area of more than 100 football fields. Early Wednesday morning, it was initially badumed that only 60 hectares were affected by the flames. The fire had broken out late Tuesday afternoon on a county road near the Coswiger district of Serno. The cause of the fire remained initially blurred.
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