The Würzburg emergency services BRK, Johanniter and Malteser report in their New Year’s Eve balance of a busy night, but calmer compared to other years. This is announced by Paul Justice, head of the rescue service on New Year’s Eve, in a press report. Between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on New Year’s morning, the ambulance and emergency doctors moved out for 28 emergency missions in the city area. For the districts of Kitzingen, Main-Spessart and Würzburg, the increased night shift of the integrated control center of the professional fire brigade counted 35 emergency operations by the rescue service.
The current contact restrictions and the ban on the sale of fireworks had an impact on the number of times the rescue service was deployed, according to Justice, but it was the busiest night shift of the past year.
Firecracker explodes in pocket
According to the announcement, the rescue services had to supply the usual range of New Year’s Eve emergencies. In addition to patients with alcohol poisoning, the emergency and paramedics also had to treat firecrackers injuries. According to Paul Justice, burn scars on the thigh will always remind a patient of the turn of the year 2021/2022 in the future? a firework had exploded in his pocket.
The head of the BRK water rescue service, Björn Rausch, reported on a fortunately unoccupied night. The DLRG Ortsverband Würzburg e. V. and the water rescue service on behalf of the city of Würzburg with eleven voluntary water rescuers on the Main, in order to be on the spot as quickly as possible, should a celebrant fall from a bridge or a bank into the water at the turn of the year.
Little rubbish
The Würzburg city cleaners also had a quiet duty on New Year’s Day. This emerges from a press release from the city of Würzburg. Emptying the waste bins in the city center resulted in around 500 kilograms of waste, the weight of bottles, fireworks, fireworks batteries and other rubbish in the streets was around 150 kilograms. Larger pollution was in the Sanderstrasse, on the Place de Caen and in Grombühl. According to the announcement, the contamination was limited on the Löwenbrücke, the Alte Mainbrücke and in the city center. For comparison: After the turn of the year 2019 to 2020, the employees of the city cleaners would have collected around 5.3 tons of New Year’s Eve rubbish.
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