Saxony-Anhalt: fire in the Börde district: forest burns on an area of ??25 hectares

Calvörde (dpa/sa) – In the district of Börde, a stubble field and an adjacent piece of forest on an area of ??around 25 hectares caught fire on Wednesday evening. Around 120 firefighters are on duty, as the district announced. According to initial findings, the fire was triggered by a defective straw press in a field near Calvörde. Due to the wind, the fire quickly spread to the forest, it said. As in some other regions of Saxony-Anhalt, the district currently has the highest forest fire warning level of 5.