{"id":109861,"date":"2026-07-30T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/109861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:11:12","slug":"a-mountain-forest-in-the-chiemgau-alps-is-burning-near-the-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/109861\/","title":{"rendered":"A mountain forest in the Chiemgau Alps is burning near the summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Challenging Mission at the Summit<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The fire department is also trying to fight the fire with firefighting helicopters. (Stock photo)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/de388361-e1e7-4006-9d9f-dd336439345d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-dark-gray text-small mt-2\">The fire department is also trying to fight the fire with firefighting helicopters. (Stock photo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-gray text-smaller mt-1 [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-b [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-aluminum [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:pb-1\">German Press Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-stacked-spacing a-paragraph a-paragraph--lead text-h4 leading-26 md:leading-28 text-navy p-4 pb-8 md:px-0 md:pt-8\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">It brings back memories of the Saur\u00fcsselkopf: In the Chiemgau Alps, the mountain forest is on fire\u2014once again in the hard-to-reach summit area. The fire department is responding on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"DPA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-full w-full rounded-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/bluewin-prod-sc-images.imgix.net\/2026\/04\/07\/ff6acd6a-8d42-4343-869c-2061a008ebb4.heif?w=96&amp;auto=format&amp;s=ec7879c5d500574f4525c7ee865596e4\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-names text-navy text-small\">DPA<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mr-1 h-3 w-3\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.bluewin.ch\/_next\/static\/media\/021-clock.24ldz2iukf4_m.svg?w=32\"\/>Today at 08:16<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">In the Chiemgau Alps, a mountain forest fire is burning near the Lackenbergwand above Unterw\u00f6ssen. A large-scale operation is currently underway in the hard-to-reach summit area of the Hochwand, according to the Traunstein District Fire Department Association. This morning, residents in the area were also warned about heavy smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">\u201cPeople are being asked to keep their windows and doors closed, turn off their ventilation and air conditioning systems, and avoid the area around the incident site,\u201d said a spokesperson for the district fire department association. When the alarm was raised on Wednesday evening, a distinct column of smoke was already visible near the summit at just under 1,000 meters above sea level. <\/p>\n<p>Extent still unclear<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">At first, it was impossible to reliably estimate the exact size of the fire or to determine its cause. However, as of now, no one has been injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">In general, the conditions at the time the fire broke out were similar to those of the fire at the nearby Saur\u00fcsselkopf near Ruhpolding in May, said the fire department spokesperson. That fire had subsequently spread and had been extremely difficult to extinguish. It took a full month before the operation was finally declared over.<\/p>\n<p>Sprinklers are designed to prevent the fire from spreading<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">In the case of the current fire at the Hochwand, the blaze also spread during the first night. \u201cLast night and during the night, crews began laying out long stretches of hose and setting up so-called circular sprinklers every few meters,\u201d explained the fire department spokesperson. \u201cYou can think of them as large garden sprinklers. They\u2019re used to spray the area not affected by the fire in order to prevent it from spreading further.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">To that end, a shuttle service using tanker trucks was set up. Three firefighting helicopters were also still on the scene that evening. \u201cVehicles cannot reach the source of the fire,\u201d explained the fire department spokesperson. Initially, it had not been possible to directly fight the fire at the summit of the mountain using ground-based resources. At that time, approximately 200 members of the fire departments, mountain rescue, emergency medical services, and the police were on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Challenging Mission at the Summit The fire department is also trying to fight the fire with firefighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,53464],"class_list":["post-109861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-schwieriger-einsatz-am-gipfel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117007921018590527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}