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Fire drama in Stade: Container burns – fire brigade quickly raises the alarm!
Stade fire department extinguishes fire in residential container. Luckily there were no injuries. Operation details and previous incidents in the article.
Fire drama in Stade: Container burns – fire brigade quickly raises the alarm!
In Stade, the fire department was alerted on June 30, 2025 at around 5:40 p.m. when a fire broke out in a residential container at the Am Bullenhof container facility. The first train of the Stade fire department moved out with around 20 emergency services to get the flames under control. Fortunately, there were no people in the affected container at the time of the fire. The operation was carried out quickly so that the fire was quickly extinguished and adjacent containers were not affected. According to police, there were no injuries.
Tageblatt reports that The fire broke out in the first container in a row of ten houses. This is not the first incident at the facility, as there was already a serious fire in December of the previous year, in which a cloud of smoke a hundred meters high was visible. At that time, the entire workforce of 64 residents of the asylum accommodation had to be evacuated.
The fire in Stade highlights the general safety problems in container accommodation for refugees. According to a project on fire statistics in refugee accommodation, critical situations arise again and again. These show that many municipalities are often financially and organizationally overwhelmed and there is an increased need for volunteers. The need for improved fire protection measures is highlighted by the fire events in recent years. What is particularly noteworthy is that 75% of the fires occurred in occupied accommodation, with kitchens often being the cause.
Inuri describes that A wide range of causes lead to fires in these facilities, from technical defects to xenophobic arson. In 2015 and 2016, 5 deaths and 876 injuries were reported across Germany in connection with fire incidents in refugee accommodation.
Further fire incidents in Germany
The fire department in Hamburg prevented the flames from spreading to the entire building, but the affected area burned out completely.