{"id":236014,"date":"2025-07-04T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236014\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:01:11","slug":"firefighters-injured-tackling-wildfires-in-eastern-germany-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/236014\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters injured tackling wildfires in eastern Germany \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wildfires in eastern Germany have severely injured two firefighters and forced the evacuation of more than 100 residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nearly 500 firefighters were battling the fires that broke out on Tuesday in Gohrischheide on the border between the eastern states of Saxony and Brandenburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One female and one male firefighter suffered burns and were seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fires have burned hundreds of hectares and were still not under control on Thursday, and a state police helicopter equipped with special cameras to detect pockets of embers has been deployed, German news agency dpa reported.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"A firefighter extinguishes embers from a forest fire fanned by strong winds in Germany (Daniel Vogl\/dpa via AP)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/63NH77E4GJP7FGCU2KWXH7UWJI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"532\"\/>A firefighter extinguishes embers from a forest fire fanned by strong winds in Germany (Daniel Vogl\/dpa via AP) (Daniel Vogl\/AP) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters were having difficulty getting close to the flames because parts of the wildfires were on a former military training area where there is a risk of ammunition detonating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The villages of Heidehauser and Neudorf and parts of the village of Lichtensee were evacuated. Residents received mobile phone alerts directing them to only take essentials, especially identification and cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The notice advised them to inform neighbours and \u201ccover your mouth and nose with improvised respiratory protection (cloth, piece of clothing, surgical mask)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">District officials called on people travelling by car to avoid the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Severe heat in Germany and elsewhere across Europe in recent days has plagued residents and led to several wildfires across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfires in eastern Germany have severely injured two firefighters and forced the evacuation of more than 100 residents.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,522,732],"class_list":{"0":"post-236014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114792031070456553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236014","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=236014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}