Submerged chapel due to dam breach
In the aftermath of Thursday evening's thunderstorms, firefighters in the Oberallgäu region were kept busy responding to a total of 21 incidents, including one in Sonthofen.
The storms resulted in 70 deployments by the Integrated Control Center Allgäu (ILS). However, the ILS did not disclose the total number of deployments related to the Sonthofen incident specifically.
In Sonthofen, the basement of a dairy plant was flooded. The Integrated Control Center Allgäu (ILS) did not provide any updates on the extent of the damage caused by the flooding. Similarly, they did not disclose any information about the cause of the flooding.
District Fire Chief Markus Adler stated that there were no major clusters of deployments, and he concluded that the events were relatively uneventful. He did not report any major clusters of deployments related to the incident in Sonthofen either.
Chief Adler also did not comment on the specific response time of firefighters to the Sonthofen incident. However, he did confirm that firefighters from the Oberallgäu region were dispatched to respond to the incident.
Though the place where the storm surge occurred in the basement of the dairy on Friday evening is not identified in the provided information, it is clear that the events following the thunderstorms, including the incident in Sonthofen, were relatively uneventful according to District Fire Chief Markus Adler. The total number of incidents responded to by firefighters in the Oberallgäu region, including the incident in Sonthofen, remains at around 20.
