A large contingent of the Munich fire brigade was in action in the Werksviertel for six hours.
50,000 liters gushed out of a pipe on the eighth floor.
The damage is enormous.
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The Munich fire brigade reports:
An enormous water damage caused a fire brigade to be deployed for several hours in the Werksviertel in Munich.
The property damage is in the six-digit range.
On Sunday lunchtime, the small alarm vehicle from fire station 1 was alerted to water damage in Atelierstrasse.
Shortly before the forces reached the scene of the incident, water that had penetrated a fire alarm triggered the building's fire alarm system, which automatically alerted a fire-fighting train.
Water damage in the Werksviertel: the water is 1.20 meters high in one room
The socket of a water pipe had come loose in a technical room on the eighth floor.
As a result, around 50,000 liters of water leaked out before the water was turned off.
In one room the water was up to four feet high.
In order to get access to the room at all, an opening had to be created with a power cutter.
Due to the large amount of water and the expansion on numerous floors from the eighth floor to the basement, the volunteer fire brigade was called in to strengthen it.
A total of 36 emergency services were deployed, who simultaneously pumped the water out of the building with two submersible pumps and six water suction devices.
In the skyscraper, the power had partially failed.
As a precaution, the climbing hall there was shut down.
The mission lasted around six hours.
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