On Wednesday fire services in Dortmund completed their assessment of the Hannibal-Komplex, an enormous housing project that is home to 700 people. We have informed landlords and will start evacuating tenants immediately,” said Ludger Wilde of the Dortmund city authorities. “We will find solutions for their accommodation for today and tomorrow before finding a long term solution," he added. Residents will be given accommodation in local sports halls for a period of 48 hours, before more long term solutions can be found. In June 86 residents of a housing complex in Wuppertal had to leave their homes for a month after fire services identified fire safety issues.

Source: The Local September 21, 2017 15:33 UTC