After a fire ripped through houses adjacent to a high speed rail line outside Cologne on Tuesday. Deutsche Bahn later donated half a million euros to the victims.
After an explosion at an apartment building in the western city of Wuppertal on Saturday left five people with serious injuries, investigators are still unclear as to what caused it.
Ghana international Bernard Tekpetey was left red-faced after firefighters had to break into his home to deal with a smoking cooking pot while he was at a Bundesliga match, reports in the German media said.
The Frankfurt Goethe Tower was one of the financial city's most popular attractions and Germany's tallest wooden observation tower. Early Thursday morning the fire service were called to the scene and had no choice but to let it burn.
Late on Sunday evening two people threw an object into a parked car in the German capital. Moments later, the vehicle exploded and had burned out before fire crews could put out the flames.
A fire at a housing unit in southern Germany for homeless people and refugees killed two people and seriously injured three others early on Monday morning.
An historical town hall in the picturesque town of Dillingen on the Danube river burned down in a fire on Wednesday night. Luckily, no one was injured.
When his cargo of diesel and petrol caught fire in a built up area of Bavaria on Monday, a truck driver was unable to put out the flames. So he risked his life to make sure others weren’t put in danger.
Update: Officials said on Monday afternoon that 18 people had died and 30 were injured after a tour bus carrying pensioners collided with a trailer truck in one of Germany's worst road accidents.
The main perpetrator behind a fire attack on a sleeping homeless man in Berlin last Christmas Eve was sentenced on Tuesday to two years and nine months in prison.
A fire broke out in a refugee shelter in Germany overnight injuring 37 people, mainly due to smoke inhalation, police said on Sunday as they searched for the cause.
Authorities believe that a series of eight fires which have ripped through forests and fields in eastern Munich over recent weeks were started deliberately.
