Heavy gusts of wind caused numerous fire and police operations from late Wednesday evening to early Thursday morning, especially in northern Germany. On Wednesday evening, an accident with an uprooted tree on the B4 near Wesendorf in Lower Saxony ended fatally for a driver. A tree fell on the 63-year-old’s car – a convertible with a fabric roof, the police said. The man died at the scene of the accident. His 35-year-old son got away with minor injuries.
The Hamburg fire brigade recorded 36 storm operations by early evening, which, according to the location service, ranged from fallen branches to tarpaulin flying around to overturned scaffolding. The situation was manageable, it said. Nobody was injured. The night remained calm despite the slight flood, as the spokesman for the situation center said early Thursday morning.
In Schleswig-Holstein squalls caused fallen trees on the roadway and fallen objects such as barriers, said a spokesman on Thursday morning. There were therefore no injuries. In the south of the country alone, the emergency services had to move out almost 180 times. On the A1 between Bad Oldesloe (Stormarn district) and the Bargteheide motorway junction, the vehicle was to be recovered after a truck accident. Due to the strong wind, this was initially not possible on Wednesday evening.
In Lower Saxony, the storm caused almost 40 missions, especially in and around Oldenburg, which, according to a police spokeswoman, also only resulted in property damage.
Squalls during the night also led to various fire brigade and police operations in Brandenburg. As a spokesman for the situation center in Potsdam announced, it was almost exclusively about fallen trees and kinked branches. On the A24, a tractor-trailer and two cars crashed into a tree lying on the road. Nobody was injured. Corona test tents were damaged by the wind in Doberlug-Kirchhain (Elbe-Elster district) and Frankfurt (Oder).