UPDATE: A young family was killed after a fire ravaged a building in Duisburg early on Monday morning. They died of smoke inhalation, police said on Tuesday. The blaze broke out in a takeaway below residential apartments overnight.
A boy who has admitted he started a fire which killed a woman and her two young sons in a Hamburg refugee home last week, was a member of the local fire brigade cadets, it has emerged.
Three people, including a six-year-old girl, were found dead by firefighters on Friday in a flat in central Germany following an explosion. The blast blew windows on to the street.
UPDATE: Police have launched an arson investigation after a fire killed a Pakistani mother and her two children and injured 27 other people in an apartment block for refugees in Hamburg on Wednesday night.
Fire broke out in Munich's underground on Wednesday evening, forcing emergency services to evacuate four stations and close them for more than three hours.
A student was seriously injured and 15 others also hurt when the left-overs of a chemical experiment exploded after they were mistakenly mixed together at a German university.
UPDATE: An explosion which shook a Shell oil refinery in western Germany on Thursday created "masses of carcinogenic soot," environmentalists said on Friday. The cause remains unknown.
Bavarian police have arrested a man who set his apartment on fire after his girlfriend broke up with him. He jumped straight into a taxi to the airport after the blaze began.
Police in Berlin have launched an arson investigation after two cars belonging to Turkish embassy workers were set on fire late on New Year's Eve. Police suspect it was not merely a case of New Year's revelry gone wrong.
Firefighters in the north German city of Bremen were out in force on Sunday as two separate buildings went up in flames. Thirty three people were taken to hospital with injuries. A separate fire at a saw mill near Braunschweig caused millions of euros worth of damage.
Police suspect a deliberately-started fire which killed a family-of-three in their foreclosed home in north-west Germany on Wednesday night was suicide.
A Berlin teacher was burnt to death on Sunday in a block of flats, allegedly by her boyfriend. Neighbours witnessed the woman running through the apartment covered in two-metre high flames before she died in the stairwell.
Police ordered 3,000 people to leave their homes after an explosion at a gas plant in west Germany caused millions of euros worth of damage and sent tanks flying hundreds of metres into the air.
Firemen were still battling a raging inferno on a former military training ground in Brandenburg on Monday, two days after it's thought buried explosives began spontaneously combusting in the heat.
Authorities believe a serial arsonist is responsible for starting several fires in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) over the last few weeks.The latest blaze, which broke out on Friday night, destroyed a gazebo.
Politicians and diplomats joined friends and neighbours in southern Germany to mourn seven children and their mother who died in a house fire on Sunday. Police suspect the cause to be a faulty wood oven.
