A fire startles the residents of a multi-storey house in Stralsund.
It is said to have been laid by a tenant.
The man is on the run.
Stralsund - The police in Stralsund are looking for a man who started a fire in his apartment in an apartment building and is said to have fled.
As a police spokesman said on Friday, the 43-year-old from Stralsund is accused of serious arson.
According to previous knowledge, the fire was lit on Thursday evening on the balcony of the tenant's apartment on the second floor.
The flames spread to the entire apartment.
Several fire brigades evacuated all of the apartments in the affected staircase of the apartment building in the Knieper West district.
A tenant suffered smoke inhalation and was taken to a clinic.
The fire was put out in the man's apartment.
A first search for the 43-year-old was unsuccessful until Friday morning.
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