On New Year’s Eve between 8pm and 5am, the emergency services recorded 337 calls to 112.
In total, firefighters rescued or came to the aid of 99 people, one of whom had reportedly suffered fireworks-related injuries.
A little earlier in the evening around 5.30pm, the Ettelbruck SAMU and firefighters from the Nordstad and Colmar-Berg fire and rescue centres rescued two injured people on the B7, whose car had overturned between Ettelbruck and Ingeldorf.
Firefighters went out a further seven times for interventions during the night of which “some may be linked to fireworks,” according to the CGDIS (Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps) morning bulletin.
Around 2.30am this Sunday morning, the Dudelange firefighters were called to put out a burning hedge on Rue Curie. Half an hour earlier, the brigade in Lac de la Haute-Sûre and Wiltz intervened in Tarchamps to put out a garbage can on fire against a façade.
Around 1.30am firefighters in Kehlen were called to Rue de la forêt in Olm in response to a fire originating from waste next to a garbage can. Around 12.40am a fire in a meadow in Bettange-sur-Mess saw the mobilisation of the Dippach firefighters.
At the end of 2022, the firefighters of Sanem and Differdange were called to extinguish waste next to a burning bin on Chemin rouge in Belvaux around 11.15pm.
Luxembourg firefighters responded twice in the evening: once due to smoke development at an hotel on Avenue de la Gare around 8.25pm, and the second time due to a smoke detector going off at around 10pm in a building on Boulevard Royal.
