Maxhütte-Haidhof (dpa / lby) – A man was critically injured in an apartment fire in Maxhütte-Haidhof in the Schwandorf district. The fire brigade rescued the man on Thursday evening from the apartment on the first floor of the two-party house, the police said.
The man received emergency medical treatment and was taken to a hospital by rescue helicopter. There is an “acute danger to life”, as a police spokesman said on Thursday. The fire was extinguished into the evening hours. The other apartment was unoccupied at the time of the fire. The cause of fire was unclear for the moment.