For an unexplained cause, there was a major fire on Saturday at a campsite on Lake Chiemsee.
Seven caravans were destroyed and two first aiders had to be hospitalized.
The damage runs into the hundreds of thousands.
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It is Saturday noon, 12:05 p.m. when the fire department receives the emergency call.
There is a fire at Chiemsee-Camping in the Überseer district of Feldwies.
Within a very short time, the flames hit meters high, a column of smoke that can be seen from afar rises into the sky.
Train leader Tobias Plenk, who is the first to be on site with the Überseer fire brigade, quickly requests support for the major fire.
Übersee am Chiemsee: Several fire departments fight the flames for an hour and a half
There are around 150 emergency services from the fire brigade, rescue services and police on site on Saturday.
The fire brigades Übersee, Grassau, Unterwössen, Grabenstätt and Traunstein on Rödlgries fight against the flames for an hour and a half.
The water supply came from the Chiemsee
"When we arrived on site, there were several loud popping noises from gas bottles flowing out," says train leader Anton Plenk later.
He decides that the cylinder gas store should first be protected from the burning caravans by a wall of water and then cleared.
The bottle store is five meters from the fire.
At this point there are around 50 gray steel bottles in the warehouse.
The operator family exchanges the 5 and 11 kilogram bottles for the campsite guests.
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The fire brigade later extinguished embers.
© Fire Department
The water barrier "prevented worse things", says Hubert Hobmaier from the Traunstein District Fire Brigade Association.
“Had it not been possible to protect the bottle store, the fire would have reached even greater dimensions.
Fire on the campsite: two people have to go to the hospital.
"I have not experienced such an inferno on a campsite in the past 25 years," says the experienced fire fighter on the day after the fire.
After ten minutes, the fire brigade has the fire under control, but cannot prevent four caravans from burning out completely.
Three other trailers and a car are seriously damaged.
The police speak of 200,000 euros in damage.
Long-term campers are mainly affected.
You live in the vicinity.
Two people have to go to the hospital.
According to the emergency services, they were in shock.
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A column of smoke rose from the Chiemsee.
© Fire Department
The Traunstein Criminal Police investigates the cause of the fire.
Initial investigations at the scene of the fire did not reveal any indications of an intentional arson.
In all probability, a technical defect can be assumed.
According to information from the operator family, operations on the holiday site will continue.
The campsite was only reopened at Pentecost.
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