City Hall chief: Fools probably prevented something worse from happening during the fire. City announced that the man who was seriously injured in the fire was flown to a clinic in a rescue helicopter.

It is not the first serious incident at a carnival parade in Germany. In Eppingen in 2018, an 18-year-old was held over a cauldron of hot water by a group of disguised witches. The young woman scalded her legs. In Hambrücken in 2017, a young woman was run over by the vehicle and sustained life-threatening injuries.