A blue light shines on the roof of a fire brigade vehicle. © Robert Michael/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB/Symbolbild
Several people have been seriously injured in a fire in a residential building in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district. Two of them are in mortal danger.
Berlin - Eight residents have been seriously injured in an apartment fire in Berlin-Wilmersdorf on Tuesday night - two of them life-threatening. As the Berlin fire brigade announced on Tuesday, there was a fire in an apartment on the first floor of a six-storey apartment building in Aachener Straße.
Two residents jumped out of the burning apartment before the arrival of the fire brigade and injured themselves life-threateningly, as a spokesman for the fire brigade reported. "One person had to be resuscitated," the fire department tweeted in the morning.
According to the information, the fire also spread to the apartments above. Two people were seriously injured and rescued from the second floor of the apartment building, and four others were also seriously injured from the stairwell. The injured were taken to a hospital.
145 firefighters were on site and extinguished the flames. Around 30 residents were cared for with the help of a care bus. The extinguishing work continued in the morning. It is still unclear how the fire started. Dpa
