Published on
18/08/2026 – 11:05 GMT+2
Video of a dramatic rescue by firefighters attending an apartment fire in the German capital has gone viral and is now being reported around the world.
When the fire brigade arrived at around 6.30 am on Friday, the woman was already sitting on the outside windowsill of her burning flat on the eleventh floor of a tower block in Friedrichshain, regional public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) reported.
“It really was touch and go,” a fire service spokesperson said, pointing out that the Berlin fire brigade’s turntable ladder only reached up to about the ninth floor of the 21-storey building.
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