A paralysed man perished when a fire ripped through an apartment in Graz yesterday evening (Weds).Paramedics failed to resuscitate the 52-year-old man after firemen entered the burning flat in the Styrian city. A female neighbour and the wheelchair-bound mans sister had to be hospitalised suffering from serious smoke intoxication. The women had tried to extinguish […]
Fire fighters freed a boy who got trapped in an iron gate with his head, it was reported today (Weds).A woman called the local fire brigade for help after spotting how six-year-old Leon could not get back or forth in Wels, Upper Austria, on Monday evening. The kid got away unscathed after firemen freed him […]
A 46-year-old man suffered serious injuries when he tried to separate fighting dogs in Vienna yesterday afternoon (Sun).The resident of the city was going for a walk with two friends and their dogs, an American Stafford Terrier and a Bullmastiff, at the Prater park. The canines playing around soon turned into an aggressive fight. Both […]
The Austrian government has decided to expand a programme making donations to charity organisations tax-deductible.The federal coalition formed by the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) announced today (Mon) the model will also consider money given to organisations which run animal shelters, voluntary fire brigades and natural protection groups.The decree, which […]
A cleaner faces criminal charges after admitting having started several blazes in Vienna.Police interviewed the 32-year-old man as they investigated a series of 10 fires which have caused substantial damage to various properties in the city over the past four months.The man, who works for a facility management firm, confessed today (Fri) to having started […]
Service on an underground train route in Vienna came to a halt for half an hour yesterday evening (Mon) after passengers said they smelt smoke.Public transport agency Wiener Linien decided to stop operations on the U3 line after several commuters told staff at stations they smelt smoke and fire while on U-Bahn trains driving through […]
An overheated DVD player caught fire in a hotel room last night (Sun).The manager of the resort in Kirchberg near Kitzbühel in Tyrol suffered minor injuries when he threw burning mattresses from the balcony. A neighbour had informed him about the smoke coming out of a window.Fire-fighters found out that an overheated DVD player started […]
More than 200 tourists had to be evacuated from a hotel in Vienna city centre when a fire broke out in an adjacent restaurant on Saturday morning.No one was seriously injured in the incident, but an elderly couple from Germany were hospitalised over possible smoke poisoning.Fire-fighters decided to evacuate the 217 sleeping guests and staff […]
Fire-fighters have discovered a massive marijuana cultivation set up in a living room in a flat in Vienna.Tenants of the housing estate in the Favoriten district called the local fire brigade after water started dripping from the ceiling yesterday (Mon). The incident exposed an illegal indoor hashish farm maintained by a 26-year-old man living on […]
A Romanian company has been assigned to produce tram bodies for Viennas public transport network.Romanian Times reports today (Tues) that Siemens Austria, the Austrian subsidiary of German technology giant Siemens AG, ordered the Bucharest Transport Society (RATB) to manufacture 60 structures for trams set to go into operation in the Austrian capital during the coming […]