At 9:22 a.m. this morning, the Mainz Fire Department was alerted to a building fire in Mainz Neustadt. Callers reported blazing flames coming from the roof to the control center. The firefighters could already see a column of smoke as they approached the scene. The alarm level was immediately raised and additional personnel from both stations as well as the volunteer fire department were called in. 

Two operational sections were set up at the scene and firefighting and rescue operations began in the six-story apartment building. The apartments in the affected building were checked. All residents were taken outside for safety reasons. Since the actual source of the fire was in the attic above the top apartment on the 5th floor, no one was in immediate danger. Ten residents were temporarily accommodated in a Mainz Mobility bus. The fire is currently under control. 

However, the follow-up extinguishing work will continue for several hours, as the roof covering must be opened over a large area in order to extinguish the embers. Around 50 members of the professional and volunteer fire departments, the police, and the medical and rescue services with three ambulances and the health section management were involved in the operation. During the firefighting operations, basic protection in the city of Mainz was ensured by the volunteer fire departments.

The closure of Boppstraße, which was necessary as part of the firefighting measures, continues to cause significant disruptions to public transport.

Head of operations: Senior Fire Chief Holger Hagen
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After the Mainz fire department was called to a roof truss fire in downtown Mainz in the morning, the units had to respond to a basement fire in Mainz-Ebersheim at around 6:00 p.m.

A fire had broken out in a basement room of a semi-detached house. The family of four was able to escape from the building and remained unharmed. Thanks to the rapid response of the fire department, the fire was quickly extinguished and confined to the basement room. Unfortunately, however, the smoke spread throughout the building, rendering it temporarily uninhabitable.

The police have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire. During the firefighting operations, the family was looked after by neighbors and the emergency services.

Head of operations: Fire Inspector Marius Dick
Vehicles BF/FF: 4/3
Personnel BF/FF: 10/22

The Mainz Fire Department was called to a traffic accident on Zwerchallee at 2:42 p.m. today.

Upon arrival, it was discovered that a construction materials truck with a permanently installed crane had become stuck while passing through a railroad underpass. This occurred because the crane had not been properly retracted.

The crane boom apparently caused minor damage to the structure of the railway overpass and pushed an iron railing toward the track bed. To rule out any danger to rail traffic, the incident commander arranged for the affected section of track to be closed via the railway emergency control center and requested the emergency manager.

A swap body vehicle with a crane was initially requested to recover the accident vehicle, but after closer inspection, it was determined that this could not be used effectively. In the next step, the crane boom was cut free using a motorized cutter, as it had become wedged in the bridge railing. The vehicle to be recovered was then slowly moved back by a firefighter using its own power. Once the crane boom was free, it lowered to street level. The railway emergency manager arranged for the traffic safety of the railway overpass to be checked.

At this point, the primary task of the fire department was complete, as both the danger to rail traffic and the possibility of the crane falling had been eliminated. The fire department remained at the scene to ensure that the leaking operating fluids were collected.

The person responsible for the accident then continued to recover the damaged vehicle using their own resources. The leaking operating fluids were collected using oil binders and disposed of by the person responsible for the accident. The final cleaning of the road surface was carried out by a specialist company.

In addition to the fire department, the state police were on site with several patrol cars, the federal police with one patrol car, the railway emergency manager, and the rescue service with one ambulance.

Head of operations: Fire Chief Inspector Nicolas Moutty Fire department
vehicles: 1 command vehicle, 2 rescue fire engines, 1 swap body vehicle with crane, 1 multi-purpose vehicle Fire department
personnel: 17 

Woken by the beeping sound of their apartment smoke detector, the two residents of the single-family home discovered at around 4:20 this morning that their house was filled with smoke. The source of the fire was quickly located in the living room on the ground floor. The owner extinguished the fire with a little water and then notified the fire department.

Both residents then went straight outside. The emergency services checked the area of the fire, which was still filled with smoke, and cleared the smoke from the building using a high-performance fan. Both residents received first aid and care from the emergency services on site and were able to return to their home once the fire department had finished its work.

A technical defect cannot be ruled out as the cause of the fire. The police have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire.

Head of operations: Fire Chief Katja Stock
Vehicles BF/FF: 5/1
Personnel BF/FF: 18/6

On the evening of December 29, around 7 p.m., attentive neighbors were disturbed by the beeping of a smoke detector, which could be heard on the second floor of their apartment building on Kurfürstenstraße. They immediately rang the doorbell of the apartment in question and saw that the lights were on. When no one responded to their knocking and calling, the residents immediately called the fire department, which arrived at the scene a few minutes later with a fire engine from Fire Station 2.  

The emergency services were directed by the neighbors. The apartment door was opened immediately and, as there was a slight amount of smoke visible in the hallway, a team wearing breathing apparatus entered the apartment.

An unconscious male was found in the kitchen and had to be treated by the emergency services. The cause of the alarm was burnt food on the stove, which was quickly extinguished with water from the sink. For unknown reasons, the 39-year-old tenant had lost consciousness. Fortunately, after brief treatment by the emergency services, he regained consciousness and was then taken to a hospital.

The apartment door was then provisionally repaired by the fire department.

The fire department praised the exemplary behavior of the attentive neighbors. If the fire department had been alerted later or if there had been no smoke detector in the apartment, this incident could have had a much worse outcome.

In addition to the fire department with three fire trucks, the police were on site with a patrol car, as well as an ambulance and an emergency doctor's car.

Head of operations: Fire Chief Klemens Boenke Fire department
vehicles: 1 command vehicle, 1 rescue fire engine, 1 turntable ladder Fire department
personnel: 10