Fire in Berlin high-rise injured 5, prompted some residents to consider jumping to safety
Firefighters evacuated 113 residents and rescued 25 others as 13 people suffered minor injuries, officials said.
- On Friday at 6:30 a.m., a fire erupted in an 18-story residential building in Berlin's Friedrichshain neighborhood, forcing a woman to scale the exterior and leap into a firefighter's rescue basket two floors below.
- Police reported the blaze started in an 11th-floor apartment before spreading to the unit above, with flames shooting from several windows and thick, black smoke pluming from the high-rise structure.
- Eighteen fire engines, two aerial ladder trucks, and nine ambulances were deployed to combat the blaze, while 25 people were brought to safety using fire-escape hoods and a turntable ladder.
- Thirteen people suffered minor injuries and received emergency medical treatment, with some transported to hospitals; in total, the fire affected 115 people during the incident.
- Authorities described the response as "especially strenuous and requiring a significant number of personnel" given the scale of the fire and number of people affected.
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Woman leaps from 11th-floor ledge into firefighter’s arms as Berlin high-rise burns
As a furious blaze raged inside a high-rise apartment building in Berlin, one woman was rescued by scaling the building’s exterior and taking a terrifying leap more than two stories down to safety.
Woman Jumps Into Fire Basket During Berlin High-Rise Blaze
Thirteen people were injured after flames spread through upper-floor apartments near Berlin’s Ostbahnhof, with five taken to hospitals. BERLIN, GERMANY — A woman trapped by flames and heavy smoke in a Berlin high-rise jumped from an 11th-floor window into a fire department aerial basket positioned about two floors below, escaping with minor injuries during a...
It happened in Berlin.The thirsty ladder worked and the woman had to jump.
A woman is trapped on the eleventh floor of a burning skyscraper in Berlin, in the Friedrichshain district, near the Ostbahnhof station. The fire department staircase cannot reach her: clinging to the window and surrounded by smoke, she drops for two floors in the rescuer's basket. The fire, which broke out on August 14 in a 21-storey building, spread to the upper level. Thirteen people were injured and five were taken to hospital, while over 13…
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