Thursday November 11, 2021
Update
There was also a power failure in Cologne
Emergency numbers in several federal states failed
Nationwide, the emergency numbers 110 and 112 for the police and fire brigade will be canceled on Thursday morning. There are warning messages from Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt, among others. A large-scale failure of electricity and drinking water is also reported from Cologne.
The emergency call has failed in numerous federal states. On Thursday morning, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance distributed official danger announcements for Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt as well as for the major cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main, according to which the emergency numbers 112 and sometimes 110 were canceled.
In Cologne There was therefore a widespread failure of electricity, telephone network and drinking water. The disruption will be resolved as soon as possible, it said. The power consumption should be reduced to the bare minimum using rechargeable batteries and batteries.
In Baden-Wuerttemberg the emergency calls 110 and 112 were canceled throughout the state Saxony-Anhalt the emergency numbers 112 and 110 and authority lines were canceled. In North Rhine-Westphalia the emergency number 112 in the Steinfurt district was canceled. In Hesse If the district and the city of Kassel were affected, the emergency number 112 for the fire brigade and rescue service could not be reached due to a technical malfunction.
In whole Lower Saxony According to the information, in addition to the emergency numbers, the trunk lines of the police and hospitals were also affected by the failure. Numerous districts in the northernmost state were also affected Schleswig-Holstein. There the all-clear was given again for several cities at 6 a.m.