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Historic Restaurant Fire Has Two Rescued

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Ladder Rescues in Flaming Building

THE TWO PROPRIETORS OF AN ANCIENT resort restaurant in Bad Hersfeld, Germany, were saved by firefighters on ladders Thursday.

The 318-yr.-old restaurant is a mainstay in the community catering to their summer tourists.  The fire is believed to have started in the kitchen area of the building and was discovered shortly after 10 am.  The two people, trapped in different areas on the third floor, started yelling for help until somebody outside heard them and called the fire department.

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The FD arrived in a short time as was able to quickly get the separate windows laddered and assist the owners out of the burning building.  One of them is shown in this video at about the :50 mark:

 

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The building had damages of "several hundred thousands" of Euro's.  The interior is pretty much destroyed.

One firefighter suffered a shoulder injury.

Osthessen News has the story and an extensive photo gallery HERE.

Thanks to Christian Lewalter of Feuerwehr Weblog.

Posted by on January 25, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fires, Videos
  • sfd763

    Question that maybe one someone on the other side of the pond can answer, at the :50 mark when they were effecting the rescue, what did the subject have on their head? looked like a hood with a filter cartridge. any ideas?

  • hthef

    Yes you’re right, it’s a so called “Escape-Hood” with a filter cartrige. It gives the victim a 15min chance to escape from fire/smoke if there is still enough oxigen left. This piece of rescue equipment is very common in the german fire service. The Escape-Hood is manufactured by DRAEGER Safety.

  • kerb

    http://www.probo-nb.cz/unikova-maska-pro-pripad-pozaru-parat-c-single-pack.html i thing something like that.. we used it in the Czech Republic