A man was injured in a house fire at night in Borstel (Diepholz district). At about 1:42 a.m., the 40-year-old resident called the emergency number, a police spokesman said. When emergency services arrived, the roof structure was completely burned. The man and his 62-year-old mother managed to escape.
The man suffered minor injuries after trying in vain to put out the fire. Across POLICE He stated that he may have caused the fire himself: he was smoking on the couch in his loft apartment during a football game. Shortly afterwards he left the room and then saw from another room that the sofa was on fire. He then woke up his mother and saved her and himself before making an emergency call.
The house is uninhabitable
Responding firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to surrounding buildings. The house is no longer habitable after the fire and extinguishing efforts are still ongoing this morning. Damage is estimated at 500,000 euros.
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