A POORLY-PLANNED FIRE DEPARTMENT TRAINING EVOLUTION IN Wikau-Hasslau, Germany, injured eleven civilians including nine children. The strange public training situation took place in a vacant 5-story apartment building and was supposedly designed to teach people how to react when they find their home filled with smoke.
The local volunteer fire brigade chose the wrong substance to generate the smoke however, because the smoke suddenly ignited in an “enormous explosion,” blowing out the windows sending shards over 50 yards away and causing innumerable cuts to the spectators. The injured children were ages 4 to 14, some of them children of the firefighters’, and three of them plus one adult required hospitalization.
photo by Andreas Wohland
It hasn’t been disclosed yet what substance the FF’s were using to create the smoke, but witnesses saw them carrying gasoline-type cans and a large tub into the building. The police criminal investigation agency has begun the investigation into the accident.
Freiepresse has the STORY.
