Smaller fires, disturbances of the peace, bodily harm and damage to property by firecrackers: it was mainly smaller operations that the police and fire brigade were busy with.
Like a “typical New Year’s Eve before Corona” – this is how a police spokesman from Lower Franconia described the number of operations at this year’s turn of the year on Sunday morning. In the rest of Bavaria, too, it was mainly smaller operations that employed the police and fire brigade. In most Bavarian administrative districts, the emergency services at the turn of the year mainly dealt with minor fires, disturbances of the peace, physical injuries and damage to property caused by firecrackers. More serious fires also broke out in Swabia and Upper Bavaria.
According to the police, New Year’s Eve was rather quiet in the state capital. In Munich around 20,000 people celebrated the turn of the year at Marienplatz and in the pedestrian zone.
There were larger operations in Upper Bavaria and Swabia: In one House fire in Leobendorf (Berchtesgadener Land district), a resident was slightly injured. The cause of the fire was initially unclear. In Tacherting (County of Traunstein) became a Stadel on fire from rockets plugged. The fire then spread to an adjacent home. However, nobody was injured in the fire. In both cases, the police estimate the damage to be in the five-digit range.
In Swabian Moenchdeggingen (Donau-Ries district) came from previously unexplained cause of the Balcony of an apartment building on fire. The flames then spread to the attic of the home. According to the police, no one was injured here either. The damage amounts to around 100,000 euros.
Police escort expectant parents to hospital
In Lower Bavaria, a heavily pregnant woman and her husband made it to the delivery room just in time on New Year’s Eve with the help of the police. Shortly before midnight in Deggendorf, officials noticed a car driving through the pedestrian zone with its hazard lights on, police said on New Year’s Day. The police officers stopped the car – the driver explained that he had to take his heavily pregnant wife to the clinic. The officers escorted the car to the hospital with flashing lights and a siren. That night, the father reported to the police and thanked them: mother and child are doing well.
Car crashes into ambulance
Two paramedics were seriously injured in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a car in the Biberach district. The two women had to be cut out of their totally destroyed vehicle, a police spokesman said on Sunday morning. The accident on the B 312 near Unlingen did not occur on an emergency trip. Nothing was initially known about the condition of the driver and the cause of the accident. The property damage was estimated at around 260,000 euros.