Emergency servicesOvernight blaze in Bertrange flat tackled by CGDIS

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A flat fire on Rue de Luxembourg in Bertrange brought CGDIS out in the early hours of Tuesday, following an evening in which vegetation fires, a burnt-out car, and several road accidents also kept emergency services on the move across the country.
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Shortly before 1am on Tuesday morning, 112 received a report of a fire on Rue de Luxembourg in Bertrange, where a flat was ablaze. According to the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS), no one was injured. Rescue teams from Luxembourg City, Bertrange, Mamer, Dippach, and Hesperange, along with the Luxembourg City emergency medical service (SAMU), were on duty at the scene.

Shortly after 9pm, teams were called out in Echternach after a tree caught fire. Crews from Dalheim and Frisange then had to tackle a vegetation fire between Filsdorf and Aspelt. A car fire followed between Bissen and Pettingen shortly before 7pm. Teams from Mersch, Bissen, and Colmar-Berg were on site, and one person was injured.

There was also an accident involving two vehicles on Boulevard Joseph II in the capital, though only material damage was reported. The city's emergency teams were dispatched to the scene. One person was injured after a motorcyclist came off his bike near Poteau de Harlange. The ambulance from Wiltz and the fire brigade from Lac de la Haute-Sûre attended. A further person was injured in Dippach when a car and a motorcycle collided. The Sanem-Differdange team supported local colleagues.

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