{"id":234806,"date":"2025-07-03T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234806\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:25:10","slug":"wildfires-in-eastern-germany-injure-two-firefighters-and-force-villages-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234806\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in eastern Germany injure two firefighters and force villages to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            03\/07\/2025 &#8211; 15:23 GMT+2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>At least two firefighters have been seriously injured and more than 100 residents evacuated as wildfires continue to burn in eastern Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 500 firefighters have been deployed to battle the blazes that broke out on Tuesday in Gohrischheide on the border between the eastern states of Saxony and Brandenburg.<\/p>\n<p>One female and one male firefighter suffered burns during the firefighting operation.<\/p>\n<p>The fires have ripped through hundreds of square kilometres and by Thursday had still not been brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>A state police helicopter equipped with special cameras to detect pockets of embers is being used, the German news agency dpa reported.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were having difficulty getting close to the flames because parts of the wildfires are on a former military training area where there is a risk that ammunition stored there could detonate.<\/p>\n<p>The villages of Heideh\u00e4user and Neudorf and parts of the village of Lichtensee have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Residents received mobile phone alerts directing them to only take essentials, especially identification and cash.<\/p>\n<p>The notice advised them to inform neighbours and &#8220;cover your mouth and nose with improvised respiratory protection (cloth, piece of clothing, surgical mask).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>District officials called on people travelling by car to avoid the region.<\/p>\n<p>An African anticyclone is sweeping across Europe, leading to record temperatures of up to 46 degrees Celsius in some countries.<\/p>\n<p>That severe heat has led to\u00a0several wildfires across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 AP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 03\/07\/2025 &#8211; 15:23 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT At least two firefighters have been seriously injured and more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2311,2000,299,1824,2461,732],"class_list":{"0":"post-234806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-heatwave","13":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}