E-Bike Battery and Cooking Pot Trigger Fires in Tyrol

The sirens were crying in two Tyrolean communities on Friday afternoon. While an e-bike battery was burning in a garage in Götzens, a cooking pot with oil triggered an apartment fire in Völs. Two people had to be taken to the hospital with a flue gas poisoning. Around 4 p.m. in the apartment of a multi-party house in Völs suddenly a cooking pot with oil on the stove was on fire. Two neighbours became aware of the fire, were able to reach the apa…

In the basement of a multiparty house a fire broke out late Friday afternoon. The trigger was the battery of an e-bike.