By Rob Hyde Fire-fighters were called when a lady in Innsbruck found a king python coiled beneath the kitchen sink. 27-year-old teacher Ulrike Schl., whose surname has been withheld for legal reasons, froze in terror when she bent down to reach for a cloth beneath the sink, and instead discovered the giant snake staring back […]
Fire fighters called to save a couple from drowning in a cesspool found a wild boar stuck in the mud. Firemen rushed to a farm in Thalheim near Wels in Upper Austria yesterday (Thurs) after a caller claimed the owners of the estate were about to die in a liquid manure tank. However, all the […]
A 2,000-square-metre warehouse of a cooking oil company burnt down in Lower Austria keeping 150 fire fighters on their toes. Police estimated that the major blaze that started in Deutsch-Wagram in Lower Austria’s Gänserndorf district on Tuesday afternoon caused an estimated damage of one million Euros. Franz Resperger, spokesman for Lower Austria’s fire fighters stressed […]
More than a dozen passengers had a narrow escape when a coach was at risk of plunging down a descent and into a river yesterday (Mon).The 52-year-old driver of the vehicle came off the bendy mountain pass road in the Carinthian district of Spittal an der Drau for unclear reasons. He told the 13 passengers […]
Around 300 households were without heating for several hours Wednesday night after a short circuit at a biomass heating plant in Vorarlberg.Firemen in the town of Lech said today (Fri) that an electrical short occurred at the facility after a device overheated. Thirty fire-fighters and 10 engineers managed to get the situation under control.The plant […]
A four-year-old boy had to be rescued by fire-fighters after he had climbed up an oak tree in St. Marien near Linz, Upper Austria, yesterday (Thurs).The kid cried for help after his foot got stuck in a forked branch. His worried mum called firemen who cut off one branch to free the child.The boy was […]
A teenage learner driver caused a head-on collision when he got distracted by the sizzling sound of a can of fizzy lemonade in the back of the car.The driver of the oncoming car the 17-year-old ploughed into during his driving lesson in Sierning, Upper Austria, suffered serious injuries in the accident. Fire-fighters had to use […]
Firemen freed a Viennese teenager after he got stuck in a basketball hoop yesterday (Weds).The 12-year-old tried to climb through the steel chain hoop at a playground in Vienna-Leopoldstadt as part of a test of courage among pals.The teens friends called fire-fighters after he got entangled with his upper body. Firemen used bolt cutters to […]
Two farmers have discovered a massive cannabis plant in the middle of one of their fields, it has emerged.Police in Upper Austrias Urfahr-Umgebung district said today (Mon) that the corn farmers contacted them after spotting the illegal plantation when they gathered the harvest this morning.Drug experts said the confiscated marijuana had a street sale value […]
Fire-fighters called out about a water damage at a flat in Vienna discovered a massive cannabis plantation.Police said today (Mon) that firemen had found more than 180 marijuana crops in a 22-year-olds flat in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district yesterday.The fire-fighters were alerted by tenants of the apartment beneath the mans flat after water started dropping from the […]