Accident at a campfire
War relic explodes: Five children injured
It was supposed to be a pleasant gathering around the campfire, but it ended with five injured children and teenagers. On Saturday evening, an explosion occurred in St. Oswald near Freistadt (Upper Austria) due to a war relic located beneath the fire pit.
On Saturday evening, four girls, one boy, and two supervisors from the Guggenberg Youth Fire Department group had gathered around a campfire at a youth hostel in St. Oswald near Freistadt. After the fire had been burning for about an hour, there was suddenly a deflagration.
“There was a huge bang”
“The supervisors told me there was a huge bang, then a jet of flame and a cloud of ash,” described Commander Georg Hausleitner. The adults immediately began firefighting efforts and initiated the emergency response chain. The five children and teenagers, aged 10 to 14, were injured and transported by ambulance to Med Campus IV in Linz.
Injured were allowed to leave the hospital
After receiving outpatient treatment, they were able to leave the hospital that same night. “The youngest participants in our training camp went home that same evening. The rest—including the five injured—arrived home on Sunday afternoon,” says Hausleitner.
Grenade found
The explosion was likely caused by a wartime relic located beneath the fire pit. Police searched a second fire pit and discovered a rifle grenade from World War II there. The bomb squad was called in and removed the wartime relic.
Police investigating
How the wartime relics ended up under the fire pits is the subject of an investigation. The operators of the youth hostel were unavailable for comment on Sunday. To process what happened, all members of the youth fire brigade, along with their supervisors, will be invited to a debriefing with the fire department’s SvE team in the coming days.
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