Overview
- Police said the blaze, which began around 3:45 a.m. Sunday, spread over the entire nightclub building in Kehl on the French border.
- About 750 people got out on their own, and emergency crews treated three for shock with no deaths reported.
- Witnesses described clear announcements in German, French and English that sped the exit and kept the crowd calm.
- Authorities opened an investigation and, according to the dpa news agency, about 80 firefighters, police and medics responded.
- Kehl sits across the Rhine from Strasbourg, and the club’s cross-border crowd helps explain the multilingual alerts and French media interest.