A fire broke out late Monday afternoon at the Europa-Park amusement park in Rust, Germany. The German amusement park, second in Europe in terms of attendance, referred to “an incident”. More than 450 firefighters, law enforcement and rescue services have been dispatched to the park site, according to police, who say the evacuation went “without problems”.
According to the Offenburg police headquarters, the fire started from a technical room and the fire detectors worked, which made it possible to give the alert relatively early. The German judicial police have opened an investigation. The park will reopen as normal on Tuesday, management said in a statement late Monday.
According to a local fire-fighting official, Bernhard Frei, interviewed by the German television channel Welt TV, the firefighters arrived between 3 and 4 minutes after the outbreak of the fire and were thus able to prevent it from starting. extends. He spoke of a “massive” operation needed to extinguish the flames. In videos posted on social networks by visitors, a large plume of smoke was visible in the late afternoon near the attractions.
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A witness to the fire told 20 Minutes that he heard “two or three loud detonations. Then we saw a huge fire. People even got stuck in the middle of the roller coaster and had to walk up and down the scaffolding,” he added. This isn’t the first time the amusement park has been hit by fire. In May 2018, seven firefighters were slightly injured while battling the flames. The fire then destroyed an attraction, which has since been rebuilt.
