New year's eve in Berlin : firefighters have to move out to dozens of fires

The new year's eve keeps night the Berlin fire brigade on their toes. Since 19 o'clock of 268 operations had been completed, she informed against 22.30 via Twitter. 74 of them were inserts, therefore, fire. 176 operations related to the rescue service. Larger fires there were in Mitte, Neukölln and Kreuzberg.

in order To 16.34 PM on new year's eve, the fire brigade was to a 13-storey high-rise building in the Leipziger Straße 55 in mid-call, after fire had broken out in a kitchen on the eighth floor of the residential house, as a spokesman for the fire brigade reported.

With the Arrival of the rescue forces was the entire floor was smoky, the tenants were trapped in their apartments. Three residents, as well as your dog could be rescued, the spokesman reported that a woman was brought to the examination by the emergency physician with a smoke poisoning in a hospital.

The fire caused a large-scale operation of the fire Department, in the meantime, the fire was approximately 90 emergency services, the fire is now deleted. Due to the use of the Leipziger street is temporarily blocked between the low-wall street and Jerusalem road.

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Later in the evening, a house burned in the neukoelln Reuterstrasse. Eight people were rescued via a turntable ladder, including three children. Five of them were taken for further treatment in hospitals.

In Kreuzberg burned down in the meantime, a balcony in the Hedemannstraße, the fire was extinguished, no one was hurt. Throughout the city there are currently about ten smaller fires, a spokesman for the Berlin fire and rescue services.