Neighbors alert the fire brigade: the couple does not hear the smoke detector
Created: 01/23/2022, 10:50 am
By: Martin Becker
Fire brigade and police rushed to an apartment in Taufkirchen © Patrick Pleul/dpa (symbolic image)
That went well again: An elderly couple sat in the heated oven and didn't hear the smoke detector when there was smoke in the kitchen.
Taufkirchen
- Much ado about almost nothing: With this in mind, the Taufkirchen fire brigade was deployed on Saturday with 35 emergency services.
An elderly couple, 87 and 85 years old, had left a wooden board in the oven, the police reported.
The board began to smolder and the smoke detector sounded the alarm at 5:40 p.m. because of smoke in the kitchen.
However: Because the residents are both hard of hearing, they did not hear the smoke detector at all - but the concerned neighbors, who dialed the emergency number, did.
The elderly couple did not suffer any damage to their health in the incident and, amazed at the presence of the fire brigade and police, found everything "not so bad".
The fire brigade removed the charred wooden board from the oven, ventilated the apartment properly and then left again.