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Blue light report for Freiburg, May 8th, 2022: Badenweiler: Grocery store cleared after chlorine gas accident

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Badenweiler: Grocery store cleared after chlorine gas accident

Freiburg (ots) –

BREISGAU-SCHWARZWALD

On Saturday afternoon, after cleaning work in a grocery store in Badenweiler, strong-smelling chlorine gas formed and spread throughout the business premises. The market was cleared as a precaution on the instructions of the fire department. A total of 22 people, customers and employees, were affected. Three people complained of irritation of the respiratory tract and received outpatient treatment on site. After the fire brigade had ventilated the premises, the market could be entered again.

The rescue service was deployed with eight, the Badenweiler fire brigade with 16 emergency services.

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Original content from: Freiburg Police Headquarters, transmitted by news aktuell
This report was sent on May 8th, 2022, 5:06 a.m. by the police headquarters in Freiburg.

Accident statistics and casualties in road traffic over the last 3 years

In the state Baden-Wuerttemberg there was a year 2020 of a total of 32,204 road accidents involving personal injury 330 fatalities and 39,620 injured. There has been a slight downward trend in the traffic accidents recorded by the police throughout Germany in recent years. In 2020, a total of 2,245,245 accidents occurred in road traffic 2,685,661 cases in 2019 and 2,636,468 cases in 2018. This trend can also be observed in the number of accidents involving personal injury. In 2020, there were 264,499 accidents in which people were injured, and a total of 3,046 people were killed. In 2018, 3,275 fatalities were recorded out of 308,721 accidents involving personal injury.

Fires and arson in 2020 in Germany and Baden-Württemberg

In Baden-Wuerttemberg drove the municipal fire brigades in 2020 in total 111,302 missions, of which 18,139 cases involved fire operations. 11,114 people were saved from fires and technical assistance was provided, but the help came too late for 1,554 people. According to police records, in Germany in 2020 20,735 cases of arson or causing a fire hazard. According to fire protection statistics, around 200,000 house fires are recorded every year. This means that every two minutes a fire ignites somewhere. Around 600 people die in house fires in Germany every year.

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