Waldbrand at Zirl: Fire brigade fights heroically against the flames!

Waldbrand at Zirl: Fire brigade fights heroically against the flames!

In the night of Saturday, June 28, 2025, an attentive eyewitness discovered a forest fire at around 2:40 a.m. in the area of ​​the Martinswand near Zirl, Tyrol. This alarming discovery quickly led to a comprehensive use of the fire brigade and the police. The fire, which spread to around 1,100 meters in the rough landscape, presented the emergency services with great challenges. According to 5min.at, the extinguishing measures began to prevent the interference in the event of dawn at night.

The alarmed forces included numerous voluntary fire departments from Zirl, Kematen, Völs, Gries in the Sellrain and Hall in Tyrol as well as the Innsbruck fire brigade and the airport fire brigade. They received support from a mobile surveillance group and emergency services from the mountain rescue and mountain rescue Zirl. A police helicopter, "Libelle", and another helicopter from a private company were also used to fly firefighters on the rough terrain and support fire fighting. This extensive coordination was necessary, since the firefighters had to work in the steep terrain at the fire stove, secured by the mountain rescue, reported krone.at.

difficult conditions and extinguishing success

The first explorations with a drone of the professional fire brigade showed that the fire had mainly eaten in the ground. The fire situation turned out to be complicated, not least because of the abruptly sloping rock walls, which made the extinguishing work even more difficult. Despite these challenges, the emergency services managed to delete the last embers at around 1:45 p.m. The affected area was then treated several times with extinguishing water to prevent the fire from being flare up.

The entire fire situation led to a roadblock of the B171 between Innsbruck and Zirl, which was blocked over five kilometers in both directions. But around 3:00 p.m. the roadblock could be lifted, which the traffic situation on site is significantly relaxed, so [5min.at] (https://www.5min.at/5202506281702/waldbrand-zirl-in-tirol-geloescht-strassenperre-aufen

forest fire statistics in Austria

The events around the forest fire in Zirl also take a look at the current situation of the forest fires in Austria. A new forest fire database allows individual queries to make historical and current fires. As early as the 16th century, there were first indications of forest fires in local chronicles. Such fires can expand enormously; The largest forest fire since the Second World War occurred in 1947 on the Nederjoch and affected around 200 hectares, while the largest fire in domestic history, how over 1,000 hectares included how boku.ac.at reported.

With the increasing increase in extreme weather events, the risk of forest fires will continue to remain an important topic in the future, and the emergency services will have to be well prepared to cope with such emergencies quickly and efficiently.