The fire brigade in a state of emergency : More than 400 fires on new year's eve in Berlin

The new year's eve night each year, a particular challenge for the Berlin fire brigade. Use numbers that would otherwise be driven over the whole day distributed, must then be within a few hours. At 18.05 was to call on Monday evening, therefore, the scheduled "state of exception new year's eve", that is to say, the application was sent to the car from this time, in order of priority and not of the receipt of the emergency call out.

hardest of all, the Use was between midnight and three o'clock: had To all 698 operations, the fire brigade disengagement - 264 fires. 417 Times, there were operations rescue. Overall, the firefighters journeys traveled between 19: 00 on Monday and 6.00 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday 1385 inserts with 432 fires and 894 Rescue. The application numbers are down compared to last year, as an article in the new year's eve 1580 Times. Larger fires there were in Mitte, Neukölln and Kreuzberg.

high-rise fire, a spokesman for the fire brigade was reported to be in the middle

in order To 16.34 PM on new year's eve the fire Department was called to a 13-storey high-rise building in the Leipziger Straße 55 in the middle of, after fire had broken out in a kitchen on the eighth floor of the 13-storey residential building, as. Upon Arrival of the rescue forces, 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 brigade was with 87 the use of local labour.

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rotation order-wire use in Neukölln

Later in the evening, was burning apartment on the second floor of a seven-storey apartment building in Berlin's neukölln district, Reuter road. In the fire apartment, no people, eight other people, but had to be on a ladder rescued, including three children. The children and two other people were brought for treatment in hospitals. The fire was probably caused by fireworks.

Burning furniture in Kreuzberg and Charlottenburg

In Kreuzberg burned down in the meantime, a balcony in the Hedemannstraße, after the furnishings went up in flames. Was injured no one, four people were brought on the staircase to safety.

Also in the Lietzenburger street furniture went up in an apartment on the second floor of a six storey residential house in flames. Two people were rescued via the staircase and with a flue gas poisoning for further treatment in a hospital.

Lichterlohe apartment fires in Moabit and Wittenau

In the Moab tower road burned to 01.09 at an apartment in the second floor of a five-storey residential house complete. Due to the complex design of the Delete was difficult, the residents were not at the fire damage. And in Wittenau in Wilhelmsruher Damm is an apartment on the tenth floor of an eighteen storey high-rise building in flames. 34 firefighters were on the ground, a Person had to be brought with a flue gas poisoning in a hospital.

rescuers involved in an accident and is attacked

at about 1: 30 a.m. accident in Lichtenrade of the ambulance, a charity with a police car and a private car. In the accident five people were injured, one of them seriously. All the injured persons were taken to surrounding hospitals, as it came to the time of the accident, is still unknown.

To the balance sheet of the new year's eve night but also attacks on rescue workers. 49 Time firefighters would be attacked in the night, mostly by fireworks. A member of the volunteer fire Department suffered a blast injury, after he was pelted with pyrotechnics.