Fire in apartment building: Neighbor rushes to help with a ladder

A blue light lights up on the roof of a fire brigade vehicle. © David Inderlied/dpa/Symbolbild

In the case of the large fire in an apartment building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, a neighbor helped with a ladder. The resident of the ground floor noticed two people on the balcony of the burning apartment in the fire on Tuesday night and hired a ladder to the rescue, the fire brigade said on Twitter. Smoke detectors had made many tenants aware of the fire before the fire brigade arrived and were able to leave the house in time.

Berlin - An apartment on the first floor of the six-storey apartment building in Aachener Straße was on fire. Two residents jumped out of the apartment into the open air before the arrival of the fire brigade and injured themselves life-threateningly, as a spokesman for the fire brigade reported. One of them had to be resuscitated. A total of eight people were injured, some of whom suffered smoke inhalation. Dpa