Heavy rain flooded Freising: fire brigades in continuous use!

Heavy rain flooded Freising: fire brigades in continuous use!

On Sunday evening, June 16, 2025, a violent storm cell moved across the Freising district, which provided numerous operations by the fire brigade. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, the storm began at 9 p.m. in Massenhausen, fell on the street as a large tree. The fire brigade acted quickly and shredded the tree to lift the blocking of the road.

In the course of the evening there were always other missions-reports from the southern district followed every five minutes. For example, several trees had to be removed in Neufahrn that disabled the traffic. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Firefighters from Hallbergmoos, Eching and Freising were on duty to free the surrounding streets of fallen trees and broken branches.

### heavy rain and floods

Numerous cellars and streets were flooded on Tuesday night, which led to further operations. Around 250 firefighters were deployed after up to 70 liters of rain per square meter. As Merkur in particular hit the town of Sünzhausen, where meter-high tidal waves flooded.

The situation was not only critical in Sünzhausen; There were also massive problems in Massenhausen, Giggenhausen, Fahrzhausen and Kranzberg. The fire station itself was flooded in Giggenhausen. Firefighters pumped Keller in Thalhausen and Kirchdorf to master the amount of water. The requirement of 100 sandbags in Kleinisenbach was particularly striking to protect an agricultural estate.

### Safety goes up

The Freising district fire inspection, led by Inspector Helmut Schmid, found that further use was also necessary in the night. The Hohenkammer fire brigade was alerted at 4:30 a.m. to remove several other trees. The restoration of the traffic routes and the security of the citizens was top priority. Fortunately, there were no injuries in all the missions, even if there were considerable damage to the water in buildings.

In a message that takes place in parallel, the German climate coitiative On the increasing frequency and intensity of strong rain of climate change. Extreme weather events like this could occur even more often in the future. Ideas to improve the infrastructure have already been mentioned in order to better equip cities for such weather conditions.

The firefighters and support organizations do valuable work, and the coordination of the district operations center in Freising was indispensable. A storm came and went, but the memories of the challenges he brought remained.