Massive blaze breaks out in central Berlin
A massive fire broke out at a paper storage facility on Wednesday evening in central Berlin that firefighters battled to control most of the night.
Twenty hurt in Neu-Ulm blaze
Twenty people were injured – three of them seriously – in a fire that broke out in an apartment building in the Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm early on Monday morning.
Huge blaze at Cologne plant extinguished
A fire that broke out at the Ineos chemical plant in Cologne, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday night has been put out.
Massive explosion kills one, injures nine in German city
A huge explosion ripped through an apartment building in the in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday. Police think it may have been caused by a gas leak.
Man sets farm alight after fight
After an heated argument, a 58-year-old man allegedly set three buildings at a farm in Letzendorf bei Greiz on fire Wednesday night.
Man turns off fire truck to 'save environment'
An environmentally conscious resident of Essen, Germany turned the engine of a fire truck off during an emergency call. The man turned the car off because he disapproved of the idling truck's wasteful fumes.
Son 'set mother on fire'
Police have arrested a 25-year-old man in Görlitz on Wednesday under suspicion that he killed her by setting her on fire.
Ludwigshafen tragedy began as a smouldering fire
German tabloid daily <i>Bild</i> has reported that the Ludwigshafen apartment fire that killed nine and injured 60 began as a smouldering fire under the building's floor.
Neo-Nazi graffiti found in Ludwigshafen fire scene
Suspected neo-Nazi graffiti has been found at a building housing a Turkish cultural centre and residential apartments in Ludwigshafen in which nine people died in a fire last night. The graffiti has fuelled speculation that the fire was a result of xenophobic arson. The German word for hate –hass – was written twice on the wall in SS-rune style writing. Police claim that the graffiti must have been put there before the fire.