Two days later

Flooded car started to burn after high water

A 57-year-old man suddenly noticed smoke underneath his car on Sunday evening - triggered by the flooding last weekend!

The 57-year-old man from the Wolfsberg district had just parked his car in front of a friend's house in St. Gertraud when he noticed a lot of smoke coming from underneath the vehicle. "He immediately drove to the meadow of the friend's house and began to extinguish the flames on the underbody with a garden hose," a police officer explained. 

Exhaust residue caught fire
The fire was finally extinguished by the Frantschach-St. Gertraud fire brigade, who were deployed with ten men. "The vehicle had been flooded during the flood two days ago," the police explain the cause of the fire: "The vehicle was cleaned, but twigs and grass residue remained on the exhaust." It was precisely these twigs and grass residues that had started to burn on the rear exhaust silencer - there were no injuries in the incident. According to initial estimates, there was also no damage to the vehicle.