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A firefighter has died in Germany during a rescue operation to help people caught in the floods that have hit parts of the country’s south. The firefighter was in a rubber dinghy with three other rescuers in the town of Pfaffenhofen in Bavaria late on Saturday night when the vessel capsized. His body was found in the early morning on Sunday, according to a spokesman for the Pfaffenhofen district office. The three other firefighters were rescued. They had been on their way to rescue a family in the severely flooded area. There were no details on what happened to the family. Fire brigades and ot…

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