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The emergency call has failed in several federal states.
On Thursday morning, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance distributed official danger announcements for Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt as well as for the major cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main: According to this, the emergency numbers 112 and sometimes 110 have been canceled.
The background is still unclear.
According to the information, there was a widespread failure of electricity, telephone network and drinking water
in
Cologne
.
The disruption will be resolved as soon as possible, it said.
The power consumption should be reduced to the bare minimum using rechargeable batteries and batteries.
In
Baden-Württemberg
the emergency
numbers
110 and 112 were canceled, in the entire state of
Saxony-Anhalt
the emergency numbers 112 and 110 as well as authority lines were canceled.
In
North Rhine-Westphalia
, the emergency number 112 in the Steinfurt district was canceled.
In
Hesse
, the district and the city of Kassel were affected, where the emergency number 112 for fire and rescue services could not be reached due to a technical malfunction.
In all of
Lower Saxony
, in addition to the emergency numbers, the trunk lines of the police and hospitals were affected by the failure.
Numerous districts in the northernmost state of
Schleswig-Holstein
were also affected
.
There the all-clear was given again for several cities at 6 a.m.
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