Around 5.30 p.m. on Friday (April 21, 2023) there were several in Zapfendorf fire departments in the region at the legendary former “Tanzsaal Hofmann” (later name “Top Act”) a. According to the deputy commander of the Fire Department Zapfendorf took around 70 task forces out of Zapfendorf, Unterleiterbach, Lauf, Rattelsdorf, Ebing, Ebensfeld and smell took part in a large-scale exercise and caused a lot of fog on the site.
The object consists of ballroom and hospitality with guest rooms and is to be demolished shortly, as the municipality has new plans for the site. In the past few weeks, the location has served as a training ground for various fire brigades and the police dog squadron. “After almost all weirs the object practice individually and were able to get to know each other, took place last Friday evening final major exercise instead”, reports the Zapfendorf fire brigade afterwards “Brand 3 – people missing”.
Large final exercise of the fire brigades in Zapfendorf – emergency services rescue missing people from the event location
Initial situation was one extensive room fire in the restaurant or the guest room area, whereby quite a few people as missing were reported. “Arriving at the object, several squads armed themselves respiratory protection and went into the building to search for people,” it continues. “Before fogged we the hospitality a“, reports the 1st Commander Benedikt Kannheiser in an interview with inFranken.de.
At the same time, the emergency services built several extinguishing attacks for firefighting. According to Kannheiser, the missing persons were members of the youth groupalso three to four dolls were in action. With the help of turntable ladder from Ebensfeld, it was then possible to save one person from the upper floor, the rest get out via the stairwell.
“The fire departments were there for about an hour and a half,” reports Kannheiser at the end. The exercise itself lasted a total of 20 minutes. The Fire Department Zapfendorf moves in after the day happy conclusion: “All in all it was a good one successful exercise with our surrounding weirs and the Gerach fire brigade.”
