After the great fire: In the case of the company Kohn, the view goes back to the front

A large fire has placed parts of the operation in debris and ash. In the case of the company Kohn in Wang you can not get The business running, the reconstruction is imminent. And the owners help now to those who got it even worse.

Wang – It is always in the evening in roaring heat of August this Saturday, but Christine Kohn is still some movement. With the car she drives Inzkofen to the neighboring, while walking you would like to enjoy a bit of nature and the celebration evening. As she returns against 21 o'clock to the car, you have a nice view over the gentle hilly landscape and solidifies at the column of smoke in the distance.

Christine Kohn faltering of the breath, you tried to Orient yourself: "Is the most Gandorfer field?", thinking of you. That it is the own wood operating in the Wanger, the District of Zieglberg could be trying to self-talk. But with every Meter, you may ride to your home, you will void a part of this hope. And at home, she meets the brutal reality of entire hardness.

up in flames if flames from one of the warehouses. Christine Kohn is an emergency call, but the fire brigade is already informed and on the way. Her husband Bernhard rushes, meanwhile, over the terrain and switches off the photovoltaic systems.

360 fire - fighting and rescue forces combat the Inferno of Wang

What happens next is well known: a Total of 360 fire - fighting and rescue forces rush to fight in an incredible show of strength, the sea of flames that spreads across more halls. The assistant manage to save the homes and the sales hall, and other buildings. They go beyond their limits, to the part about: a number of forces will be violated, a moss Burger firefighter almost lost his life.

+ Inferno: 4. August destroyed a major fire, large parts of the site. The fire was caused by a Defect of a photovoltaic system. Six responders were injured, a helper had to be revived.©Armin Forster

That break out in spite of the immense radio flight, and for weeks, the prevailing risk of forest fire, no other fire in the area, borders on a miracle. The cause of the Inferno later, the fire investigators to the Department: A technical Defect in the inverter of a photovoltaic plant, the disaster has to determine the trigger.

The reconstruction - the help was great

Zieglberg one afternoon in December of the same place, but the contrast could not be greater. Drizzle falls from the sky, the cold fingers. Where even in the summer, three mighty warehouses of the wood lands Kohn, roller chain excavator pile on sooty brick. The locations of the burned down buildings only on the basis of some of the broken walls to suggest. Christine Kohn pulls up the zipper of the red logo-fleece jacket that warms your hands in your pockets and to see the Excavator operators at work. The 58-Year-old has wet eyes behind her glasses, the pain of the past is still deep. But she instead turned her gaze forward again.

In a hall the fire has caught only the roof, the Kohns were, therefore, recently, a new planning application in the parish Wang. After some struggle with the insurance of the demolition of the destroyed buildings could be initiated. The business will continue to run meanwhile. This was also addressed in the operation together with the staff in the past few months, an incredible feat of strength. And: "Many of the suppliers have been good to us," says Christine Kohn. Glad she is also on the support from the environment. "On the Monday after the fire have reported people from the area and us free storage capacity offered."

The fire brigade refuses to make a donation - there are too many Departments involved

The Loyalty of many customers did the Rest. Despite the millions of damage to the timber market continued, and soon the company wants to offer, increasingly, cork products, according to the owner, again full of zest for action. What happens to the empty area after the demolition and how it goes with the storage? "Let's see," says Kohn. The purpose of optimism can make you look a back a little smile.

will be donated to the business success before Christmas, some for good purposes, the Kohns had years of good Tradition. This year was actually to the fire donation out of gratitude, fight for the selfless service. "There it was: It was to Defend a lot of involved a lot," says Christine Kohn. Therefore, you've got your family to support a charitable purpose. And so, the Association "step – by-step help with System advanced" in the focus.

Now flood victims in India is gripped under the arms

The organization was founded in 1995 by husband and wife team of Ida and Josef Gaßner from Tiefenbach (Kreis Landshut) and fought since then, poverty and Need in India. Many Thousands of sponsored children and young adults, were seized by the volunteers, under the arms, about the construction of their own schools, children's homes, but also in the Form of medical aid, education and well-building projects. Matadorbet

+ help for flood victims: Christine and Bernhard Kohn (from left) presented this year's donation to the Association's "step – by-step help with System". Their Chairman, Ida and Josef Gaßner, struggling with the money against the result of Floods in India.©Armin Forster

That time called to the large fire in Wang at the other end of the world in India, a devastating flood, many deaths and immeasurable suffering, and the heaviest damage was to the Kohns of the occasion your cheque to "step by step e. V." to advertise. And so Ida and Josef Gaßner were now on a visit to the Zieglberger wood land for the stately sum of 2000 Euro. Christine Kohn said at the Handover: "We want to help those who got hit much harder than us."

Date Of Update: 15 December 2018, 14:00