140 emergency services were deployed
Fire on the Reeperbahn – big alarm for the fire brigade
11/10/2025 – 02:26Reading time: 2 minutes
Big alarm in St. Petersburg Pauli: A restaurant caught fire and the fire spread. What the fire department discovered required a major effort.
A fire at a restaurant on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn sparked a massive firefighting operation on Sunday evening. The fire spread to other floors. Two people were injured and taken to hospital.
At around 20.10, the Hamburg fire brigade was notified of the Reeperbahn with the keywords “mass casualty incident”. Up to 140 emergency services from volunteer firefighters and professional firefighters were called to the neighbourhood. There was a fire at a restaurant near Lincolnstrasse or Beatlesplatz.
“When emergency services first arrived, we had a fire on the ground floor of a restaurant. Two people received emergency medical treatment relatively quickly and were transported to area hospitals,” said fire department spokesman Patrick Schrenk, describing the initial situation. One of them suffered injuries from broken glass – possibly while escaping through a window. Other people go into shock.
According to situation services, the fire in the restaurant area was extinguished around 9 p.m. According to fire department spokesman Schrenk, smoke was then visible on the first floor, so it had to be extinguished there and on the roof. In addition, the smoke also moved to the dormitory next door, so the fire department raised the alarm level to three. So he was deployed with three fire engines. Based on Abendblatt’s information, there were no guests in the dormitory so the building did not need to be evacuated.
The Reeperbahn was closed in both directions from Nobistor for firefighting work. At around 10 p.m., firefighters had to open the roof of the building to extinguish the last embers. Drones are also used to measure the surface temperature of fire objects.
The Hamburg police situation service could not provide a statement on the cause of the fire that night. The crime scene will be inspected by criminal police on Monday. Based on information from journalists at the location, the operation was also accompanied by a large number of residents who were party guests in the surrounding area at night.
