3 children rescued

Mother injured by jet of flame in boiler room

The fire broke out in this house.(Bild: FF Andorf)

Dramatic scenes on Christmas Day in a house in Andorf (Upper Austria). A woman had added coal briquettes in the boiler room. When she went to check again a little later, she was caught in a deflagration and injured by a jet of flame. Despite this, she was still able to save her three children.

According to her own statements, a 34-year-old woman from Andorf added coal briquettes to the solid fuel boiler on the ground floor on December 25, 2024 at around 9-40 pm. She then left the boiler room again and was busy cleaning up until around 10.15 pm. The woman then wanted to check the boiler room again.

Mother caught in a flash fire
When she opened the door to the boiler room, a deflagration occurred immediately and the 34-year-old was caught in a jet of flame. She immediately ran to the upper floor of the building, took her children, aged 4, 8 and 9, outside and ran with them to her neighbors. They informed the fire department. When the Andorf and Schulleredt fire brigades arrived, the boiler room was already fully engulfed in flames.

Fire department prevented the worst
The fire department was able to prevent the fire from spreading to the rest of the house by intervening quickly. The 34-year-old woman was injured to an indeterminate degree and was taken to Ried Hospital after receiving first aid from the emergency doctor.