11:05 am | 250 emergency services and six water cannons against embers in southern Brandenburg
The fire area in the Elbe-Elster district will also be flown over with drones and thermal imaging cameras on Sunday. The rain on Saturday also showed hot spots on the outskirts, because particularly heavy smoke developed there. “These cameras provide information about the temperatures in deeper layers of the ground and thus determine the further course of the measures,” the district informed on Sunday. 250 emergency services are in the extinguishing operation.
The Bundeswehr also continues to support the situation on the ground with two armored recovery vehicles, four fire engines and a command vehicle. Two water cannons from the Brandenburg police and four water cannons from the federal police are trying to wet the ground over an area of 500 hectares and extinguish hot spots.
10:53 am | Good news for evacuated village Vysoká Lípa
A few minutes ago, the Czech fire brigade tweeted that the residents of the village of Vysoká Lípa can return home. They had been waiting for this news for more than five days. Residents of other evacuated places around Hrensko would have to be patient, it said.
10:48 am | This is how the injured firefighters feel in Saxon Switzerland
According to the Pirna district office, two of the four injured firefighters are still being treated in the hospital. This is reported by Radio MDR SACHSEN.
10:36 am | Kretschmer for rethinking fire protection in the forest
Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has called for a rethink of fire protection in view of the forest fires in Saxon Switzerland and northern Saxony. This affects both the technical equipment of the emergency services. But the priorities in nature conservation would also have to be realigned because of the increased risk of fire. Kretschmer named aisles, deadwood and water management in the forest as keywords.
09:31 am | THW lays 5.3 kilometers of hoses near Arzberg
Local branches of the Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) from Thuringia and Saxony also support the transport of water during the large forest fire operations in Saxon Switzerland and northern Saxony. In Arzberg/Northern Saxony, the volunteers have to ensure a stable water transport over a distance of 5.3 kilometers, the THW informed. Firefighters fight embers on an area of around 500 hectares. For this purpose, hoses were laid from the Elbe in the Stehla district to Kötten. At the end of the route, the fire brigades fetch the water from a buffer tank. This is what it looks like: