Heavy smoke

Burning pizza box triggers chimney fire

Symbolic image(Bild: APA/Georg Hochmuth)

An empty pizza box started a chimney fire in a house in Wildschönau in the Tyrolean district of Kufstein on Wednesday evening. Fortunately, the dicey situation ended relatively mildly.

An empty pizza box was burnt in an additional stove in the house in Niederau on Monday. This led to the chimney fire at around 6.45 p.m., which also produced thick smoke. The Niederau volunteer fire department then moved out and allowed the chimney fire to burn down in a controlled manner.

According to the police, no one was injured in the incident and there was probably no damage to property. The fire department has now arranged for the chimney sweep to inspect the chimney.