07:26 | Finding a bomb near Arzberg was a mistake
The bomb discovery reported yesterday in the area of the forest fire near Arzberg turned out to be a mistake. That’s why you can continue fighting the flames, said a spokesman for the Elbe-Elster district.
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The forest fire flared up again on the Brandenburg side last night, the flames were about 250 meters from the B183 on the Saxon side. Additional Bundeswehr helicopters have been requested for this morning. From 8 a.m. they should extinguish from the air on the Brandenburg side.
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07:09 | New fire site north of the Großer Winterberg
The forest fire in the Saxon Switzerland National Park is spreading again. Further north of the previous fire area between Großer Winterberg and Großer Zschandbach, the fire crossed the border from Bohemia to Saxon Switzerland, the press spokesman for the district office of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains, Thomas Kunze, announced today. However, it cannot yet be said whether there will be another major source of fire in addition to the previous five fire sites.
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06:31 | Fight against the flames continues
The situation in the forest fire areas in southern Brandenburg and in the Saxon Switzerland National Park remains serious, despite initially easing slightly. The fight against the flames continues on Thursday. Hundreds of firefighters and other emergency services are working hard to contain the fires.
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5:39 a.m. | Saxon ministers at fire sites on the way
Today, Saxony’s Forest Minister Wolfram Günther (Greens) and Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) want to get an idea of the fire situation in Saxon Switzerland.
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05:03 | Forest scientists: New approaches to fighting forest fires needed
The Freiburg forest scientist Alexander Held has urgently called for new approaches to fighting forest fires in Germany. “What we are now experiencing in terms of fire behavior is usually visible in Spain and Portugal. We are simply lagging behind in terms of training, strategy, tactics, but also equipment,” said Held to the TV station “phoenix”. Although fire brigade schools would develop new training concepts, they would be overtaken by current developments.
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The aim is fire management, which includes the fire brigades and the extinguishing of fires as elementary building blocks. But there are other building blocks such as agriculture and forestry, environmental education, awareness raising, tourism. All actors would have to work in a coordinated manner towards a more robust landscape. Then the fire brigade can carry out its tasks safely and effectively.
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