B 198 - Smoke column in the Steinbach area
| Incident Number: | B 198 |
| Date: | 22.08.2024 |
| Alarm time: | 21:45 |
| End of operation: | 22:27 |
| Incident keyword: | Plume of smoke on the grounds |
Report
Late in the evening, a caller alerted the fire department after noticing the smell of smoke in the woods near Steinbach, in the direction of Hahnweilerhof. The fire departments from Steinbach, Börrstadt, and Winnweiler then responded to the reported forest area and searched the region for a possible source of the fire.
It soon became clear that a resident had started a fire in a trash can on his property; while the fire posed no danger, it could have been the source of the smell of burning. To ensure that no fire had broken out in the surrounding forest area, the drone unit conducted a wide-area flyover of the area using a thermal imaging camera. However, nothing was detected, so the operation was concluded shortly thereafter.