https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Police investigating a fire at a farm in Thalgau in the state of Salzburg say they have found several weapons as well as portraits of Adolf Hitler in the burnt-out building. https://www.thelocal.at/20170208/guns-and-hitler-portraits-found-in-burnt-down-farm Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:36:10 +0100 guns-and-hitler-portraits-found-in-burnt-down-farm To stave off the cold, a homeless couple in Vienna's district of Favoriten made an open-air fire under a bridge late Monday evening. Unfortunately, their efforts resulted in major harm to the man and fatal injuries for the woman. https://www.thelocal.at/20170117/homeless-couple-spark-deadly-blaze-to-stay-warm Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:40:47 +0100 homeless-couple-spark-deadly-blaze-to-stay-warm Three people were rescued from a dramatic house fire in Upper Austria's Bad Schallerbach on Saturday evening. The fire broke out in a ground-floor apartment and spread all the way up to the roof. Police claim that the cause of the fire was the burning cigarette of a 48-year old tenant, who is still in hospital for smoke inhalation. https://www.thelocal.at/20170109/over-100-firefighters-called-to-extinguish-blaze-in-freezing-cold Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:51:41 +0100 over-100-firefighters-called-to-extinguish-blaze-in-freezing-cold There were 13 attacks on refugee centres in Austria in just the first three months of this year, according to the Interior Ministry. https://www.thelocal.at/20160609/thirteen-attacks-on-refugee-centres-in-austria-in-three-months Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:45:13 +0200 thirteen-attacks-on-refugee-centres-in-austria-in-three-months Hundreds of people stood in solidarity with asylum seekers at a rally on Sunday in the Austrian village where a refugee centre was burnt down in an arson attack last week. https://www.thelocal.at/20160606/austrians-condemn-refugee-centre-arson-with-rally Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:09:18 +0200 austrians-condemn-refugee-centre-arson-with-rally Arsonists were most likely behind a huge blaze which burnt down a newly-built but still empty refugee centre in northern Austria, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20160601/possible-arson-destroys-empty-refugee-centre-in-austria Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:54:26 +0200 possible-arson-destroys-empty-refugee-centre-in-austria A fireman has died in Austria while out on an emergency call battling the fallout from severe storms in the Tyrol region over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.at/20160530/fireman-dies-in-austria-in-flooding-weather-emergency Mon, 30 May 2016 13:21:57 +0200 fireman-dies-in-austria-in-flooding-weather-emergency Fifteen emergency vehicles and seventy firemen were called out on Tuesday to battle a large roof fire in Vienna that sent smoke across several districts in the city. https://www.thelocal.at/20160525/large-roof-fire-causes-traffic-chaos-in-vienna Wed, 25 May 2016 11:29:05 +0200 large-roof-fire-causes-traffic-chaos-in-vienna The top floor of a palace in Austria that once belonged to the Habsburg family has been destroyed in a fire started by a discarded cigarette. https://www.thelocal.at/20160512/historic-austrian-former-habsburg-palace-goes-up-in-flames Thu, 12 May 2016 12:59:29 +0200 historic-austrian-former-habsburg-palace-goes-up-in-flames A blog about volunteer firemen in Austria was forced to change its name after receiving a letter from Facebook threatening court action if it continued to call itself ‘Firebook’. https://www.thelocal.at/20160325/facebook-comes-after-austrian-firemens-blog Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:14:36 +0100 facebook-comes-after-austrian-firemens-blog An arsonist in Salzburg has managed to avoid capture despite having set fire to the same building six times in just four days. https://www.thelocal.at/20160321/sixth-arson-attack-in-four-days-in-salzburg-austria Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:57:11 +0100 sixth-arson-attack-in-four-days-in-salzburg-austria A Roma family who were living in tents in Linz had their homes burnt to the ground in the third arson attack to happen in the area in the past three weeks. https://www.thelocal.at/20160303/third-arson-attack-on-roma-family-in-linz-austria Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:12:51 +0100 third-arson-attack-on-roma-family-in-linz-austria Thirty-one people were injured, two of them seriously, after a fire broke out in an apartment building in Vienna’s Favoriten district on Monday evening. https://www.thelocal.at/20160209/31-injured-after-fire-breaks-out-in-vienna-building Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:52:12 +0100 31-injured-after-fire-breaks-out-in-vienna-building A man and his two grandchildren, aged eight and ten, have died after his house caught fire in Kroisbach an der Feistritz in Styria. https://www.thelocal.at/20150807/man-and-two-children-die-in-house-fire Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:27:37 +0200 man-and-two-children-die-in-house-fire A man known as the “Krems firestarter”, who was responsible for starting nine fires in the space of one week in Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria, has been caught and told police he was being forced to commit arson by a blackmailer. https://www.thelocal.at/20150804/krems-arsonist-was-volunteer-fireman Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:36:40 +0200 krems-arsonist-was-volunteer-fireman One of Upper Austria’s largest heavy transport vehicles burst into flames overnight as it travelled past Sattledt - luckily nobody was injured in the blaze. https://www.thelocal.at/20150427/huge-transporter-catches-fire-in-upper-austria Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:27:44 +0200 huge-transporter-catches-fire-in-upper-austria A 46-year-old Styrian man saved his mother-in-law from her burning house on Tuesday after she left several candles burning and forgot about them. https://www.thelocal.at/20150107/man-saves-mother-in-law-from-burning-house Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:48:00 +0100 man-saves-mother-in-law-from-burning-house A family cat may have saved the lives of its family in the early hours of Tuesday morning whens its loud cries warned them about a fire in the house. https://www.thelocal.at/20141231/furry-jimmy-saves-the-day Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:40:44 +0100 furry-jimmy-saves-the-day Austrian safety experts are warning people to be vigilant with candles and other fire hazards in the home this Christmas. https://www.thelocal.at/20141128/christmastime-is-dangerous-for-children Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:45:00 +0100 christmastime-is-dangerous-for-children A multi-storey building in Linz went up in flames on Tuesday night, with 17 residents evacuated in a dramatic rescue. https://www.thelocal.at/20141105/fire-causes-evacuation-of-multi-storey-building-in-linz Wed, 05 Nov 2014 08:35:00 +0100 fire-causes-evacuation-of-multi-storey-building-in-linz