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The residents are taken out of the smoke-filled house with a turntable ladder Photo: Spreepicture
By Dirk Böttger
For the second time within 24 hours, the volunteer fire brigades in the Oder-Spree district had to go on a large-scale operation to deal with a basement fire.
There was a fire in the basement of a residential building in Ziolkowskiring in Fürstenwalde-Nord on Wednesday evening around 8 p.m. The fire brigade and rescue service were again in large-scale operation.
Thick smoke was coming from the basement when the first emergency services arrived, and numerous residents were standing on balconies. The fire department rescued 16 people using a turntable ladder. A resident was taken to hospital with suspected smoke poisoning.
People had to wait outside in the apartment building while the fire was extinguished.
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Residents must wait outside until the fire is extinguished Photo: Spreepicture
Just the evening before there was a fire in a cellar in Beeskow, 28 kilometers away. There, 29 residents were rescued from the house – there were 6 injured.