{"id":109881,"date":"2026-07-30T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/109881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:49:13","slug":"fire-in-the-mountain-forest-in-the-chiemgau-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/109881\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the mountain forest in the Chiemgau Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Challenging Mission at the Summit<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A few months ago, there was a fire on the Saur\u00fcsselkopf near Ruhpolding. (File photo)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1479\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c85c8cae-d8ad-4ca3-9a77-d83a2fe1a3f6.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-dark-gray text-small mt-2\">A few months ago, there was a fire on the Saur\u00fcsselkopf near Ruhpolding. (File 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\">There&#8217;s a fire in the Bavarian Alps\u2014once again in the hard-to-reach summit area of the Saur\u00fcsselkopf. Emergency responders are trying to bring the flames under control, using helicopters, among other methods.<\/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 07:26<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">A fire has broken out in a hard-to-reach area near the summit of the Chiemgau Alps. The fire department launched a large-scale operation in the Hochwand area near the Lackenbergwand, according to the Traunstein District Fire Department Association. This morning, residents in the area around Unterw\u00f6ssen 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 scene of the incident,\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 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 Saur\u00fcsselkopf near Ruhpolding in May, said the fire department spokesperson. That fire had subsequently spread and had been extremely difficult to contain. It was not until a month later that the operation was declared over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Challenging Mission at the Summit A few months ago, there was a fire on the Saur\u00fcsselkopf near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,53464],"class_list":["post-109881","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\/117008070460750911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109881","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=109881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}