25.12.2009 – news.de

Fire at Christmas
Many deaths in fires

At least nine people have died in house fires at Christmas in Germany lost their lives. And there were more deaths.

Gassed in Frankfurt

Friends of a family of four from Eritrea in the Frankfurt suburb of Bergen-Enkheim alerted the police when they had not complied with an appointment and was not reachable. The officials were in front on Christmas Eve, the 33-year-old woman and the boys at the age of 10 and 13, dead in the living room. The 43-year-old father survived, he was taken to a hospital. The bodies will be autopsied on Monday. Initial toxicological studies suggest, according to police on a carbon monoxide poisoning by the gas-close in the house.

Another three victims, a mother and her two sons who died apparently of carbon monoxide poisoning in Frankfurt. The most serious fire accident occurred early Friday morning in Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, where at least five people perished in the flames.

The fire of unknown origin broke out in the early hours of Friday in a duplex in the suburb of Königsborn. There, three generations lived under one roof. Reported here are an older couple and a family of four. A 56-year-old man and a woman survived badly injured. He could save himself against 4 clock 40 from the burning house and alert the fire department via cell phone. The man was only hours out of danger.

According to the authorities is not excluded that in the burned house more people, guests of the family died. "Overall, could have stayed for up to nine people in the house," said District Administrator Michael Makiolla.

More fire in Germany

When house fires were in the last hours, another four people died. In Freiburg, broke out on the second floor of a tenement fire. A 79-year-old residents 87 years old and his wife were injured. The man died later in hospital. In the Berlin suburb of Wandlitz a 67-year-old lone pensioner died in his bungalow. He was found on Christmas Eve to 22 clock in the burned areas.

On Friday afternoon, was in a senior center in Herten near Recklinghausen in a fire. The police discovered dead in the affected room has a 64-year-old in a wheelchair. Two residents and a nurse were injured by fumes.

In Baden-Wurttemberg Donzdorf (Göppingen), a 47-year-old woman died in her house, although they had jointly discovered the fire in her kitchen clock just before 2.30 on Friday with her brother. She was found dead near the kitchen. The 51-year-old brother was with the arrival of the fire out, he was with a slight smoke inhalation as a precaution taken to hospital, such as informing the police.

There were also two injured in a fire on Friday morning at a campsite in holders on the edge of the Ruhr. In the fire in a caravan, a 51-year-old man suffered serious injuries from Duisburg so that he had to be brought to a special clinic. A neighbor caught a smoke inhalation.