Kitchen fire

Defective appliance led to fire department intervention

The kitchen was badly damaged by the fire.(Bild: mathis.studio/Stefan Zangerl)

The fire departments from Rankweil, Weiler and Klaus had to be called out on Thursday morning due to an electrical fault in a kitchen appliance. However, the fire was quickly extinguished. 

The emergency call was received by the rescue control center at around 9 am. Heavy smoke was reported coming from a kitchen. The Floriani firefighters immediately went to the scene in Klaus and prevented anything worse from happening. 

No casualties
The cause of the fire was an electrical fault. The kitchen was quite badly affected by the fire and subsequent extinguishing work. Fortunately, no one was injured.