Ammunition triggered a forest fire at the Großmittel military training area – federal states

Ebenfurth – The extinguishing work at the Großmittel military training area in Ebenfurth (Wiener Neustadt district) continued on Friday. The army with tanks, around 250 members of the voluntary fire brigade (FF) with 60 vehicles and helicopters were deployed. “Fighting hundreds of embers might take several days,” said the Lower Austria fire brigade command. Self-ignition of a piece of ammunition may have caused the fire, the police said on request.