St. egyden: More than 30 firefighting teams were mobilized on Friday afternoon to battle a major wildfire that broke out in a pine forest in St. Egyden, Lower Austria, prompting the evacuation of a nearby residential area and road closures.
According to Emirates News Agency, Mario Lukas, the district fire chief, noted that the alert level had been raised to the highest level, B4, due to the rapid spread of the flames amid extreme heat and strong winds. The fire came alarmingly close, within just 100 meters of homes.
The incident occurred around a week after a similar fire was extinguished in the same area. That previous blaze burned around 100 hectares and took five days to bring under control.