Due to a major fire in the Finkenwerder district school in Hamburg, school was canceled on the last day before the holidays. The fire patterns point to a gas explosion as the cause, according to the Hamburg police and fire brigade. The building partially collapsed. The fire started in the basement of the district school and spread from there to the administration building, which also houses the staff rooms.
When the emergency services arrived, they heard more explosions and gas hissing, NDR reports. The school was immediately taken off the gas grid. At that point, the building was already completely on fire.
60 emergency services were on site during the night and were able to contain the fire to a few embers in the morning. The fire has now been extinguished. No one was in the school buildings during the night, and the caretaker was not injured. The media had previously reported.
